Het Ghent Centre for Global Studies en Academia Press – Lannoo nodigen u van harte uit op de voorstelling van het boek
op maandag 28 november om 19u in het auditorium van het VAC Virginie Lovelinggebouw, Koningin Fabiolalaan, 9000 Gent (naast het station Gent-Sint-Pieters). Read more
The Ghent Centre for Global Studies is proud to announce the publication of the peer-reviewed edited volume De hermaakbare wereld? Essays over globalisering (Remaking the world? Essays on globalisation). This collection of essays by the research groups of the Ghent Centre for Global Studies wants to contribute to the societal debate on globalisation, making ongoing Global Studies research at the GCGS accessible to a wider (non-academic) audience in (Dutch-speaking) Belgium and the Netherlands. Read more
First published in Dutch in: Vlaams-Marxistisch Tijdschrift, 48 (2014) 3.
Following the recent creation of the “Ghent Centre for Global Studies” at Ghent University (UGent), Belgium, this paper aims to contribute to the study of the Third World in its relation to Global Studies, based upon an experience of fifty years with Third World issues. In this contribution we will elaborate the way in which we approached the Third World in the 1950s and 1960s, from the point of view of a Western university education and the then prevailing “classical” development and modernisation theories. Our extensive experiences in the field and new events and findings gradually moved us in another direction – towards a more “global” thinking. Read more
Eric Vanhaute, member of the GCGS steering committee and head of the Research Group Communities, Comparisons, Connections, has contributed to the Special Issue on Potentials and Challenges of Global Studies for the 21st Century of the academic E-journal Global Europe – Basel Papers on Europe in a Global Perspective, published by the Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel. 
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