The Ghent Centre for Global Studies is an interdisciplinary research platform uniting scholars from Social Sciences and Humanities at Ghent University around the critical study of globalisation, with special attention to the interaction of local and global processes. With its research and education – on migration, borders and mobilities; political ecology of land (rights), natural resources (extraction) and climate change; economic (de- and re-)regulations, urban-rural transformations and social movements fighting for a more just world – the Centre aims to develop knowledge as a tool for global social change and to contribute to the public debate on the transition towards a sustainable economy on a human scale. To this end, the GCGS also collaborates with civil society, policy-makers and the arts.