Giselinde Kuipers
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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
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)
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.
Many thanks to composer-sociologist Timothy Dowd for the music and logo.
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 >>
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Eco-Types
Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarization that undermines our ability to protect the environment
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They co-authored the book -- another terrific read -- with @merinoleschuk.bsky.social who is not in the podcast but is on Bluesky. >>
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 >>
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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...
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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) >>
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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...
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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:
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Michael Burawoy For Public Sociology, Part 1: Introduction
YouTube video by sociologyumn
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by Giselinde Kuipers — Reposted by Dave O’Brien
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.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of MIchael Burawoy, tireless proponent of public sociology, who passed away in February of this year.
by Giselinde Kuipers — Reposted by Dave O’Brien
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" >>
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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 ...
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by Giselinde Kuipers — Reposted by Dave O’Brien
(this is my summary btw, Kristina is somewhat more nuanced about the practice she calls "elite capture" ) >>
by Giselinde Kuipers — Reposted by Dave O’Brien
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>>
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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
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by Giselinde Kuipers — Reposted by Dave O’Brien
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 >>
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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...
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Thank you! Will do. (I sometimes forget esp when the picture is text.. )
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:
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.
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 >>
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. >>
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.
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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...
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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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: >>
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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
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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 >>
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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...
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I wrote about Lisa Lucile Owen's outstanding Soc. Methodology article from 2022. One of the few methods articles on qualitative interviewing that has ever haunted me for an extended period of time.
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One Utterly Crazy Read - Monday - January 27
On the internet, nobody knows that you are an adjunct professor
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I wrote this thing. It's far from perfect, but at least it's done. Feedback welcome, especially if you're actually doing something.
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A few points for the left
A few thoughts as the flames of fascism rise up all around, consuming people and planet.
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The power of values for understanding social media is also their curse: they are everywhere. In an #openaccess article in New Media & Society, the Digital Values team presents an analytic framework for systematically making sense of values in digital spheres: doi.org/10.1177/1461...
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Een ongeziene omwenteling in de rectorverkiezingen: oud-premier Alexander De Croo is kandidaat-rector. 'De KU Leuven is een internationale universiteit en ik zocht een job met internationaal allure. Het plaatje past.'
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Alexander De Croo vierde kandidaat-rector KU Leuven
Een ongeziene omwenteling in de rectorverkiezingen: oud-premier Alexander De Croo is kandidaat-rector. 'De KU Leuven is een internationale universiteit en ik zocht een job met internationaal allure. H...
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Reposted by Giselinde Kuipers
Reposted by Giselinde Kuipers
Philomena Essed -- die met haar baanbrekende werk over alledaagse racisme haar tijd ver vooruit was -- krijgt overigens binnenkort, en zeer terecht, de Akademiepenning van de KNAW:
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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.
Chillingly relevant as we see hunger used once again as a tool of war.
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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