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Global Studies Research Seminar 2023
In recent times, there has been a surge of mobilisations worldwide, igniting transformative movements that challenge established power structures
Decolonising the university – Seminar by Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker – March 24, 2022
On the occasion of the inauguration of the Amnesty International Chair at Ghent University awarded to Gloria Wekker, on March 23 in Vooruit, prof. Wekker will give a seminar on decolonizing the…
Learning Network on Decolonization – Lecture and workshop by Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (LSE) On Decolonizing Teaching and Learning
The Ghent Centre for Global Studies is proud to participate in the Learning Network on Decolonization of the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of Ghent University, and happy to announce the…
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Call for applications 2022 – Erasmus Mundus Master Global Studies
The 2022 application round for the two-years Master's course in 'Global Studies - A European Perspective' and the Erasmus Mundus grant is now open and therefore we…
Open letter from Ghent University staff and students on the regularization of undocumented migrants in Belgium
As employees, researchers and lecturers of Ghent University, we want to express our deep concern for the 475 People Without Papers who have gone on hunger strike since May 23rd in the buildings of…
Statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people
As departments, research groups, unions, student organisations and individual employees, researchers and lectures of Ghent University, we condemn the violent Israeli attacks on the Palestinian…
0,7 cake crumbs or actual cakes?
Why we need a Minister of Global Affairs Thomas Vervisch (Ghent University) fears an opportunity was missed in the distribution of ministerial posts in the new Belgian government: where is our…
The unbearable whiteness of international development
The SDGs and decolonial feminisms Keya Khandaker and Lata Narayanaswamy (University of Leeds) question the SDGs' white, liberal feminist myopia, which focuses on the fiction of the ‘Third World…
It is time to abandon “development” goals and demand a post-2030 Utopia
Following the critique, by Brecht De Smet, of the inherent shortcomings of the development paradigm, Julia Schöneberg and Mia Kristin Häckl argue for a post-2030 Utopia that starts now. They…
The normative promise of sustainability for labour standards – and the limitations of the SDGs
How can SDGs contribute to the promotion of labour rights? Tonia Novitz argues that the rights of workers may, in principle, benefit from being embedded in a wider sustainability discourse. However,…
SDGs caught between development and underdevelopment
It is time for new alternatives based on old critiques Brecht De Smet (UGent) joins Jan Orbie and Sarah Delputte in their criticism of the SDGs, but goes one step further and dissects the…
Agenda 2030: the limits of multilateralism?
At the launch of this blog series Jan Orbie and Sarah Delputte ask critical questions about the SDGs. Their colleague Bernard Mazijn (Ghent University) provides the necessary historical…
The SDGs as double agent for progressive sustainable development
Jonathan Matthysen (Oxfam Belgium) agrees that the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) legitimize the current economic system. He argues, however, that progressive forces can also turn the SDGs…
The SDGs and the urgency of human rights in times of crisis
International human rights treaties are notably absent from the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although human rights and SDGs could in theory reinforce each other, Chiara Macchi (Wageningen…
How sustainable are the SDGs?
We need more development, not post-development SDGs are ‘sustainable’, in the sense that poverty reduction has dominated development discourse for a very long time. Francine Mestrum criticizes…
Trade and the Sustainable Development Goals
Mission unfulfilled This blog series was launched with a sharp opinion by Jan Orbie and Sarah Delputte on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and in particular on the role of trade…
The Coronavirus pandemic and the irrelevance of the SDGs.
Time for a Jubilee According to Remco van de Pas (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp), SDG3 on health and wellbeing has been irrelevant to address global challenges in this area. The futility…
Blog series – debating the SDGs
In 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched to great fanfare by the United Nations. Not only governments at different levels, but also NGOs and companies invest a great…
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Call for applications – Erasmus Mundus Master Global Studies (EMGS)
The 2020 application round for the two-year Master program in Global Studies (EMGS) and the Erasmus Mundus grant is now open and we would like to encourage all suitable…