Luuc Brans
@luuc.bsky.social
🎓👨💻FWO Postdoc sociology KU Leuven
👕🌿🪧researching politics of sustainability in culture, esp in fashion
🚄🐶 rail aficionado & aspiring dog owner
🏡 🇪🇺Bruxelles - Amsterdam
🔗www.luucbrans.eu
👕🌿🪧researching politics of sustainability in culture, esp in fashion
🚄🐶 rail aficionado & aspiring dog owner
🏡 🇪🇺Bruxelles - Amsterdam
🔗www.luucbrans.eu
🎧🌿 Our latest episode of the Culture and Inequality Podcast on the Cultural Politics of the Climate Crisis just dropped!
🥩 🐄 I talk with the great Josée Johnston, Emily Huddart, and Shyon Baumann about their and @merinoleschuk.bsky.social just-published book Happy Meat and Emily’s book Eco-Types!
🥩 🐄 I talk with the great Josée Johnston, Emily Huddart, and Shyon Baumann about their and @merinoleschuk.bsky.social just-published book Happy Meat and Emily’s book Eco-Types!
From Happy Meat to Eco-Types: The Cultural Politics of the Climate Crisis
Culture & Inequality Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
🎧🌿 Our latest episode of the Culture and Inequality Podcast on the Cultural Politics of the Climate Crisis just dropped!
🥩 🐄 I talk with the great Josée Johnston, Emily Huddart, and Shyon Baumann about their and @merinoleschuk.bsky.social just-published book Happy Meat and Emily’s book Eco-Types!
🥩 🐄 I talk with the great Josée Johnston, Emily Huddart, and Shyon Baumann about their and @merinoleschuk.bsky.social just-published book Happy Meat and Emily’s book Eco-Types!
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Open vacancy for a Professorship in British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund👀
tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...
tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...
Professorship (W3) British Cultural Studies in a Global Context
tudberufung.hr4you.org
June 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Open vacancy for a Professorship in British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund👀
tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...
tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...
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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
www.queensu.ca
June 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
Details found here👇
www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here:
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
The Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World
Culture & Inequality Podcast · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
How do elites navigate a world with meritocratic expectations and calls for diversity? I had the absolute privilege to talk to both Kristina Kolbe and @aaronreeves.bsky.social about their new books that address these very questions! Listen to the podcast here:
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
open.spotify.com/episode/1t5V...
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So: environmentalism isn’t just an expression of privilege. It’s also a way of opposing a different kind of privilege.
Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊
Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊
Green Against Greed: Negating Economic Capital Through Ecological Distinction
Pro-environmental attitudes are more prevalent among the affluent and educated, both across and within societies. However, the underpinnings of this pattern remain debated. Some scholars view environ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
So: environmentalism isn’t just an expression of privilege. It’s also a way of opposing a different kind of privilege.
Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊
Read more here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌱📊
🎉Very happy I'm awarded a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. My project uncovers the cultural roots of climate polarization by studying how an 'oatmilk elite' of well-meaning climate advocates in 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇸🇪 fashion like eco-influencers may exclude & moralise people unlike them...🌿
👏 🎉Congratulations to all awardees and canditates for making this year's selection an affirmation that Flanders's research culture is from the highest quality.
Good luck!
Results FWO postdoc positions, SBO projects and ERC runner-up projects: www.fwo.be/en/results-o...
Good luck!
Results FWO postdoc positions, SBO projects and ERC runner-up projects: www.fwo.be/en/results-o...
LinkedIn
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May 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
🎉Very happy I'm awarded a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellowship @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social. My project uncovers the cultural roots of climate polarization by studying how an 'oatmilk elite' of well-meaning climate advocates in 🇧🇪🇮🇹🇸🇪 fashion like eco-influencers may exclude & moralise people unlike them...🌿
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.
April 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.
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New open access paper in Social & Cultural Geography!
Meghan Flood and I study how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity in Amsterdam.
Very happy this is out. A thread sharing some key take-aways:
(1/n)
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doi.org/10.1080/1464...
Meghan Flood and I study how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity in Amsterdam.
Very happy this is out. A thread sharing some key take-aways:
(1/n)
>>>
doi.org/10.1080/1464...
Queer in a housing crisis: how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults navigate housing precarity
As many cities experience housing crises, those of minority identity within these cities are more vulnerable to housing exclusion and discrimination. This article explores how nonbinary and genderq...
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New open access paper in Social & Cultural Geography!
Meghan Flood and I study how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity in Amsterdam.
Very happy this is out. A thread sharing some key take-aways:
(1/n)
>>>
doi.org/10.1080/1464...
Meghan Flood and I study how nonbinary and genderqueer young adults experience and navigate housing precarity in Amsterdam.
Very happy this is out. A thread sharing some key take-aways:
(1/n)
>>>
doi.org/10.1080/1464...
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Er is een directe lijn te trekken van de minister die weigert vrijwilligers die vluchtelingen helpen te belonen met een lintje, naar de totale morele apathie bij de zoveelste oorlogsmisdaad van Israël. Het is zowel wrang als onmenselijk dat het eerste nieuws in Den Haag meer opschudding veroorzaakt.
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Er is een directe lijn te trekken van de minister die weigert vrijwilligers die vluchtelingen helpen te belonen met een lintje, naar de totale morele apathie bij de zoveelste oorlogsmisdaad van Israël. Het is zowel wrang als onmenselijk dat het eerste nieuws in Den Haag meer opschudding veroorzaakt.
Another concerning expose from @yaravanheugten.bsky.social about SHEIN's lobbying network, with (very) close contacts in the White House, the Elysee, and 10 and 11 Downing Street...
Browse Shein’s new collection: lobbyists with ties to Trump, Macron and Starmer
Shein’s Chinese owners have been trying to take the ultra fast fashion company public since late 2023, without success. So the retailer is enlisting lobbyists with contacts at the highest levels of po...
www.ftm.eu
March 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Another concerning expose from @yaravanheugten.bsky.social about SHEIN's lobbying network, with (very) close contacts in the White House, the Elysee, and 10 and 11 Downing Street...
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Eppo Bruins wil in de voorhoede blijven van landen waar wetenschappers voor kiezen.
Daarom (checks notes):
- heftige bezuinigingen
- de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL)
- morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen
Daarom (checks notes):
- heftige bezuinigingen
- de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL)
- morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen
March 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Eppo Bruins wil in de voorhoede blijven van landen waar wetenschappers voor kiezen.
Daarom (checks notes):
- heftige bezuinigingen
- de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL)
- morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen
Daarom (checks notes):
- heftige bezuinigingen
- de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL)
- morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen
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De Duitse socioloog Werner Sombart noemde mode al in 1902 ‘het lievelingskind van het kapitalisme’. Dat staat op gespannen voet met de klimaatcrisis. We spraken met socioloog @luuc.bsky.social over zijn proefschrift naar mode en ideologie ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-201-mode...
Afl 201: Mode & de klimaatcrisis | Onder Mediadoctoren
ondermediadoctoren.nl
March 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
De Duitse socioloog Werner Sombart noemde mode al in 1902 ‘het lievelingskind van het kapitalisme’. Dat staat op gespannen voet met de klimaatcrisis. We spraken met socioloog @luuc.bsky.social over zijn proefschrift naar mode en ideologie ondermediadoctoren.nl/afl-201-mode...
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Bezos' statement equates freedom with personal liberties and free markets. That is seriously reductive and biased. Read the work by @adedijn.bsky.social on this topic: www.uu.nl/publicatie/f...
Freedom: An Unruly History
Deze maand publiceert Harvard University Press het nieuwe boek van Annelien de Dijn: 'Freedom: An Unruly History'.
www.uu.nl
February 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Bezos' statement equates freedom with personal liberties and free markets. That is seriously reductive and biased. Read the work by @adedijn.bsky.social on this topic: www.uu.nl/publicatie/f...
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Latest publication, together with Naïké Garny, exploring intersectional understandings of resistance with the Sisters' House 👇🏻
In their article on The Sisters’ House as an Intersectional, Feminist Reception Project for Migrant Women, Naïké Garny and Sarah Murru analyse the concept of Constructive Resistance and explain how The SH enacts a constructive project. Read more on digest.ugent.be 📌 @sarahmurru.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Latest publication, together with Naïké Garny, exploring intersectional understandings of resistance with the Sisters' House 👇🏻
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The one thing I really wanted to say on live TV tonight: If politicians want to be “muscular”, they should go to the gym. No one needs muscles in politics, it’s not a boxing ring and it should not become one. What one needs is intelligence, strategic thinking & an ability to collaborate.
February 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The one thing I really wanted to say on live TV tonight: If politicians want to be “muscular”, they should go to the gym. No one needs muscles in politics, it’s not a boxing ring and it should not become one. What one needs is intelligence, strategic thinking & an ability to collaborate.
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Important that the collapse of the welfare state gets a mention in this - as the article says, back in the day there was more state support that gave artists breathing room to create.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Working-class creatives don’t stand a chance in UK today, leading artists warn
Exclusive: Analysis by the Guardian shows a third of major arts leaders were educated privately
www.theguardian.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Important that the collapse of the welfare state gets a mention in this - as the article says, back in the day there was more state support that gave artists breathing room to create.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you"
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
February 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you"
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
Spotted in Liverpool, UK
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Wir haben den echten Grabstein von Franz von Papen vor die CDU-Parteizentrale gebracht. Papen wollte mit den Konservativen über seine Erfahrungen sprechen, Faschisten einzubinden in der Hoffnung, sie dadurch klein zu kriegen. Spoiler: Ein Holocaust, ein Weltkrieg und 55 Millionen Tote.
February 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Wir haben den echten Grabstein von Franz von Papen vor die CDU-Parteizentrale gebracht. Papen wollte mit den Konservativen über seine Erfahrungen sprechen, Faschisten einzubinden in der Hoffnung, sie dadurch klein zu kriegen. Spoiler: Ein Holocaust, ein Weltkrieg und 55 Millionen Tote.
This is very tragic news, amid all the gloom. Burawoy was an inspiration to many, including myself. I’ll never forget his great opening speech in Porto at
ESA last summer, in which he compared the role
of labour and capital in Apartheid in Palestine and SAfrica. A great sociologist has passed 😢
ESA last summer, in which he compared the role
of labour and capital in Apartheid in Palestine and SAfrica. A great sociologist has passed 😢
RIP Michael Burawoy (1947-2025) 😢
(accident de voiture, quelle horreur....)
(accident de voiture, quelle horreur....)
February 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is very tragic news, amid all the gloom. Burawoy was an inspiration to many, including myself. I’ll never forget his great opening speech in Porto at
ESA last summer, in which he compared the role
of labour and capital in Apartheid in Palestine and SAfrica. A great sociologist has passed 😢
ESA last summer, in which he compared the role
of labour and capital in Apartheid in Palestine and SAfrica. A great sociologist has passed 😢
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I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.
In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.
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In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.
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Chaos and confusion. Somebody read @naomiaklein.bsky.social The Shock Doctrine as a manual, it seems. Time for people to read it again for countermeasures also.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
Trillions of dollars could be on hold, according to an Office of Management and Budget memo
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trillions of dollars could be on hold, according to an Office of Management and Budget memo
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
January 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different.
In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.
a 🧵
In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that.
a 🧵
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De AfD overlegt in het geheim met neonazi’s over het ‘zuiveren’ van Duitsland van ‘vreemde smetten’, en Elon Musk prijst hen als de toekomst van het land. Toch zijn er nog steeds mensen die twijfelen of zijn gebaar een Hitlergroet was.
January 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
De AfD overlegt in het geheim met neonazi’s over het ‘zuiveren’ van Duitsland van ‘vreemde smetten’, en Elon Musk prijst hen als de toekomst van het land. Toch zijn er nog steeds mensen die twijfelen of zijn gebaar een Hitlergroet was.
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Open brief van Belgische academici en studenten
"De situatie in Gaza toont aan dat het uitblijven van actie tegen deze juridisch vastgestelde schendingen het onrecht niet alleen verlengt, maar ook de internationale rechtsorde zelf dreigt uit te hollen."
www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-...
"De situatie in Gaza toont aan dat het uitblijven van actie tegen deze juridisch vastgestelde schendingen het onrecht niet alleen verlengt, maar ook de internationale rechtsorde zelf dreigt uit te hollen."
www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-...
‘De onbetwiste misdaden van Israël, en de steun die westerse staten bieden, ondermijnen de fundamenten van de rechtsorde’
www.demorgen.be
January 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Open brief van Belgische academici en studenten
"De situatie in Gaza toont aan dat het uitblijven van actie tegen deze juridisch vastgestelde schendingen het onrecht niet alleen verlengt, maar ook de internationale rechtsorde zelf dreigt uit te hollen."
www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-...
"De situatie in Gaza toont aan dat het uitblijven van actie tegen deze juridisch vastgestelde schendingen het onrecht niet alleen verlengt, maar ook de internationale rechtsorde zelf dreigt uit te hollen."
www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-...
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De stad Gent vertelde haar inwoners dat ze hun kerstboom na de feestdagen niet zomaar weg hoeven te gooien: van de naalden kun je namelijk ‘een heerlijke sparrennaaldenboter’ maken. Maar dat bleek achteraf geen goed idee @trouw.nl www.trouw.nl/buitenland/e...
Eet je kerstboom op: Gent verslikt zich in recept met naalden
De Belgische stad Gent vertelde haar bewoners dat je van de kerstboom prima sparrennaaldenboter kunt maken. Maar dat bleek achteraf geen goed idee.
www.trouw.nl
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
De stad Gent vertelde haar inwoners dat ze hun kerstboom na de feestdagen niet zomaar weg hoeven te gooien: van de naalden kun je namelijk ‘een heerlijke sparrennaaldenboter’ maken. Maar dat bleek achteraf geen goed idee @trouw.nl www.trouw.nl/buitenland/e...
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Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Sociology in the Times of Genocide: call for expressions of interest Contribute to a forthcoming Special Section in The Sociological Review journal
thesociologicalreview.org
January 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Closing Monday: expressions of interest in ‘Sociology in the Times of Genocide’, a spevial section of @sociologicalreview.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
January 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940.
2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.