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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 16d

Bon courage (good courage) as they sat in French. Ive only had two rounds and nothing that bad but it was still such misery. Take care

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 23d

I have been learning Portuguese with Babbel and like it a lot. Also, it worked: I was in Brazil and had serviceable trave Portuguese after a few months (I speak Spanish, so I had a headstart, but still)

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Finally, a word of appreciation and thanks for this year's excellent editorial team and hosts: Sanne Pieters, Kobe de Keere, @luuc.bsky.social, @bryanboyle.bsky.social, @tvdooremalen.bsky.social and Norah Schulten,

Many thanks to composer-sociologist Timothy Dowd for the music and logo.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Luuc and Emily also discuss Emily's earlier book Eco-Types: Five ways of Caring about the Environment, which analyzes culturally distinct ways of caring about the environment (so 4 beyond the typical elite/green style) - and how these types fuel polarization >>

press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...

Eco-Types

Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environment

press.princeton.edu

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

They co-authored the book -- another terrific read -- with @merinoleschuk.bsky.social who is not in the podcast but is on Bluesky. >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

This final episode is called From Happy Meat to Eco-Types: The Cultural Politics of the Climate Crisis. Josee, Shyon, and Emily discuss their brand new book Happy Meat: The Sadness and Joy of a Paradoxical Idea, which neatly bridges cultural and climate sociology >>

www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Happy Meat | Stanford University Press

North Americans love eating meat. Despite the increased awareness of the meat industry's harms–violence against animals, health problems, and associations with environmental degradation–the rate of me...

www.sup.org

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Canada is the hotspot for climate sociology, so much is clear from this final episode of the Culture and Inequality Podcast in which @luuc.bsky.social (aka Luuc Brans) talks with Josée Johnston, Shyon Baumann (both U of Toronto) and Emily Huddart (U of British Columbia) >>

pod.link/1533967764/e...

Culture & Inequality Podcast

How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...

pod.link

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Michael Burawoy's 2004 ASA presidential address stands out for me as the single most Durkheimian collective effervescent moment I have experienced in academia (not generally known for effervescence). I'm not sure how well it works on screen, but this is it:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nxv...

Michael Burawoy For Public Sociology, Part 1: Introduction

YouTube video by sociologyumn

www.youtube.com

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Both book are terrific reads, by the way.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of MIchael Burawoy, tireless proponent of public sociology, who passed away in February of this year.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Aaron (LSE) discusses "Born To Rule", co-authored with Sam Friedman (also LSE). Aaron and Sam present a wealth of data showing how British elites have managed to hold on to power positions in meritocratic times by adopting (a semblance of) "normalness" >>

www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Born to Rule — Harvard University Press

The Economist, Best Books of 2024The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like ...

www.hup.harvard.edu

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

(this is my summary btw, Kristina is somewhat more nuanced about the practice she calls "elite capture" ) >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Both Kristina and Aaron discuss their new books. In "The Sound of Difference", Kristina (Erasmus U Rotterdam) shows how despite the enthusiastic embrace of 'diversity' cultural hierarchies remain in place in German classical music>>

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165497/

Manchester University Press - The sound of difference

The sound of difference - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of The sound of difference by Kristina Kolbe

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Penultimate episode of this season's Culture & Inequality Podcast, in which @bryanboyle.bsky.social (Free U Brussels) talks with Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about the Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World >>

pod.link/1533967764/e...

Culture & Inequality Podcast

How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...

pod.link

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you! Will do. (I sometimes forget esp when the picture is text.. )

Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

Your post led me to take a look at their website to see what has has become of T&S and wow have they taken a weird turn. This is the other special issue for which they are currently looking for contributions:

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

Coming from different places, we agreed that Havel's work felt acutely relevant, for his plea for truth as the basis of civic life and a form of power of the powerless; and, more grimly, for his prediction that western liberal democracies will also have to face political destabilization of truth.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

During a meeting with Narges, my Iranian PhD student, she told me about this inspiring Czech author she was reading with her Iranian reading club. It took some time to figure out that the essay that I knew in Dutc has "Attempt to live in truth" is called "Power of the powerless" in English >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

Havel in is the air. Recently, I found my thoughts turning to Vaclav Havel, the Czech dissident and later president who in the 1970s wrote about his attempts to "live in truth". I reread his books, which I read in the 1980s as a somewhat over-serious teenager, and his biography. >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

Additional acknowledgements: I found out about Charlene's work through this post by @casmudde.bsky.social . Just a reminder to senior academics that it's always a good idea to promote the work of younger people.

bsky.app/profile/casm...

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Mar 25

Exceptionally rich and insightful interview with @calderarocha.bsky.social that should be of great interest to scholars of the far right and of gender and politics. 🙌

Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · Mar 25

📣New blog📣

Our member, @calderarocha.bsky.social, discusses her recent article on the appropriation of feminism by a far-right women's collective of 'identitarian feminists.' Check it out below!

reacpol.net/farright-fem...

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

Charlene Calderaro (U of Lausanne) discusses her work on femonationalism, the selective use of feminist discourse to advance far-right causes, based on her fascinating empirical research on French grassroots activists. She write about this here >>
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

Beyond Instrumentalization: Far-Right Women’s Appropriation of Feminism in France

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sarah Bracke, with whom I swapped places (she came to Amsterdam just before I went to Leuven), was eerily early to identify the strange, scary entaglements of gender and the far right. For more info on her work on gender and replacement ideology, see: >>

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

The Politics of Replacement | Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories,

The Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Aug 3

Next episode of the Culture & Inequality Podcast: "Gender as Battlefield: Far-Right Movements, Femonationalism and Replacement Ideology", with host Norah Schulten (U of Amsterdam), @antigonesdream.bsky.social (aka Sarah Bracke) and @calderarocha.bsky.social >>

pod.link/1533967764/e...

Culture & Inequality Podcast

How does culture feed into inequality? And the other way around? In Culture and Inequality, cultural sociologists from universities across the world explore these topics in-depth from various perspect...

pod.link

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Jul 26

This week, I read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ("We should all be feminists"). This beautiful 2006 novel deals with the civil war in 1960s Nigeria, and more particularly the man-made famine in Biafra.

Chillingly relevant as we see hunger used once again as a tool of war.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Jul 26

Vanochtend bij het opkomen van de zon deed ik mee aan Getuigen van Gaza: 5 dagen lang, 24 uur per dag lezen Utrechtse burgers de namen voor van mensen die zijn omgekomen in Gaza.

getuigenvangaza-utrecht.nl

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · Jul 24

At the end of the podcast, Catherine, Rebecca and Thijs also discuss what glimmers of hope they seen for climate action in the Trump era - a recurrent theme and untone in this new series.

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