Giselinde Kuipers

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.

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

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

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...

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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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...

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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YouTube video by sociologyumn Michael Burawoy For Public Sociology, Part 1: Introduction

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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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.

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 ...

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

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

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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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...

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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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 >>
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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

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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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...

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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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.

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.

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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.

Sociology, risk and the environment: a material-semiotic approach Sociology has made significant contributions to the conceptualisation of risk and critique of technical risk analysis. It has, however, unintentionally reinforced the division of labour between the...

Catherine Wong, assistant professor of sociology at the U of Amsterdam, joins the podcast to speak about her work on enviromental sociology, temporality and risk, about which she has written this highly insightful article:

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The state and the state-of-the-art: prefiguring private insurance for US flood risk Abstract. States not only govern markets, but they also create them, often with the intention of expanding or improving the delivery of specific policy obj

Thijs speaks with Rebecca Elliott, associate professor at LSE, author of a seminal article on climate sociology and loss (2018), but in this episodes she talks mainly about her more recent work on the sociology of food risk: >>

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British heatwave discourse (1985–2023): from ice cream to armageddon? How has public discourse about climate change evolved? This paper answers this question through the paradigmatic case of British heatwaves. These are traditionally considered a fortunate break from...

Hosted by @tvdooremalen.bsky.social, an assistant professor at Leiden University, former Marie Curie fellow in Leuven, who works on public discourse about climate >>

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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...

More Culture and Inequality Podcast! In this episode, @tvdooremalen.bsky.social , @catherinewong.bsky.social and @rfelliott.bsky.social discuss how sociologists offer insights on the climate crisis that natural scientists or economist tend to miss:

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Tv-recensie | Gezellig ontmenselijken ZAP: Het is „meer dan bagger” wat onze recensent bij ‘De Oranjezomer’ zag: propaganda van Geert Wilders laten zien en het dan hebben over de „begrijpelijke angst” voor moslims in Nederland.

De ZAP TV-recensies van NRC: vroeger een van de meer gezellige hoekjes van de krant, nu de meest consistent kritische berichtgeving over de Nederlandse politieke cultuur.

Dat zegt iets over die cultuur, maar toch ook veel over de journalistiek.

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Kobe De Keere, the host of this episode, is also part of the new editorial team of the C&I podcast, and Associate Professor of Sociology at the U of Amsterdam. Kobe is currently working on a book on crypto currencies, based on extensive fieldwork in the crypto community.

Learning to Like the Likes and the Hate: The Labor of Internet Fame in the New Attention Economy ABSTRACT. How do people experience internet fame? Whereas public visibility and reputation were once tightly coupled, these can be decoupled in the new med

The second guest is Ashley Mears, professor of Cultural sociology at the U of Amsterdam. The first person to appear on this podcast twice, Ashley talks about her recent work on virality, content farms and the attention economy, about which she wrote this article:

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