Giselinde Kuipers
@giselinde.bsky.social
Sociologist studying frivolous things and their serious consequences.
Work: KU Leuven (BE)
Home: Utrecht (NL)
If you don't understand what I write it's probably Dutch.
More info on my ERC project on beauty and inequality at www.sociologyofbeauty.eu
Work: KU Leuven (BE)
Home: Utrecht (NL)
If you don't understand what I write it's probably Dutch.
More info on my ERC project on beauty and inequality at www.sociologyofbeauty.eu
Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>
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:
August 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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:
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. >>
August 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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. >>
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.
July 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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
getuigenvangaza-utrecht.nl
July 26, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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
getuigenvangaza-utrecht.nl
Acknowledgements: The relaunch was made possible by (exceedingly generous) funding from the European Research Council (#ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant agreements No. 101052649.
July 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Acknowledgements: The relaunch was made possible by (exceedingly generous) funding from the European Research Council (#ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant agreements No. 101052649.
Philomena Essed, bekend van haar baanbrekende onderzoek naar alledaags racisme, kreeg gisteren de Akademiepenning, van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Welverdiende erkenning voor een inspirerend onderzoeker: open en stellig, nadenkend en gepassioneerd, wijs en waardig.
June 6, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Philomena Essed, bekend van haar baanbrekende onderzoek naar alledaags racisme, kreeg gisteren de Akademiepenning, van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Welverdiende erkenning voor een inspirerend onderzoeker: open en stellig, nadenkend en gepassioneerd, wijs en waardig.
Ik heb weer eens een mening.
"Waarom bieden gymnasia niet, naast Latijn en Grieks ook Arabisch en Chinees aan? "
"Waarom bieden gymnasia niet, naast Latijn en Grieks ook Arabisch en Chinees aan? "
February 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Ik heb weer eens een mening.
"Waarom bieden gymnasia niet, naast Latijn en Grieks ook Arabisch en Chinees aan? "
"Waarom bieden gymnasia niet, naast Latijn en Grieks ook Arabisch en Chinees aan? "
Als iedereen in Nederland die tegen racisme en fascisme is (zeg nou zelf, zo raar is dat niet) hier nu eens naartoe zou komen..
Zonder meteen kritiek te hebben op anderen die net op een andere manier, of om een andere reden, tegen racisme en fascisme zijn..?
Dan zijn we vast met een heleboel.
Zonder meteen kritiek te hebben op anderen die net op een andere manier, of om een andere reden, tegen racisme en fascisme zijn..?
Dan zijn we vast met een heleboel.
February 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Als iedereen in Nederland die tegen racisme en fascisme is (zeg nou zelf, zo raar is dat niet) hier nu eens naartoe zou komen..
Zonder meteen kritiek te hebben op anderen die net op een andere manier, of om een andere reden, tegen racisme en fascisme zijn..?
Dan zijn we vast met een heleboel.
Zonder meteen kritiek te hebben op anderen die net op een andere manier, of om een andere reden, tegen racisme en fascisme zijn..?
Dan zijn we vast met een heleboel.
Ik dacht dat de klok op het station al maanden stil stond maar misschien vergiste ik me en is het de doomsday clock.
February 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Ik dacht dat de klok op het station al maanden stil stond maar misschien vergiste ik me en is het de doomsday clock.
Met geweldige vormgeving ook van Irma Boom.
January 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Met geweldige vormgeving ook van Irma Boom.
Helaas verstopt diep in de website van de KNAW. Voortgekomen uit een leesgroep, die een levensveranderende ervaring (echt waar) was voor alle betrokkenen. Dit schrijven Anthony en Liesbet in de inleiding:
January 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Helaas verstopt diep in de website van de KNAW. Voortgekomen uit een leesgroep, die een levensveranderende ervaring (echt waar) was voor alle betrokkenen. Dit schrijven Anthony en Liesbet in de inleiding:
Zoon kijkt vogels, ik kijk vogelaars.
Zondagochtend, Oosterschelde: zeldzame Pacifische parelduiker (dwaalgast, nooit eerder in NL gezien) trekt bekijks.
Zondagochtend, Oosterschelde: zeldzame Pacifische parelduiker (dwaalgast, nooit eerder in NL gezien) trekt bekijks.
January 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Zoon kijkt vogels, ik kijk vogelaars.
Zondagochtend, Oosterschelde: zeldzame Pacifische parelduiker (dwaalgast, nooit eerder in NL gezien) trekt bekijks.
Zondagochtend, Oosterschelde: zeldzame Pacifische parelduiker (dwaalgast, nooit eerder in NL gezien) trekt bekijks.
But also strangely beautiful sections, such as this one the carnivalesque festival of chain-gangs. >>
December 21, 2024 at 12:19 PM
But also strangely beautiful sections, such as this one the carnivalesque festival of chain-gangs. >>
One example of such rather off-hand theory building, casually introduced at the end of a chapter rather unobtrusively called "The means of correct training">>
December 21, 2024 at 12:12 PM
One example of such rather off-hand theory building, casually introduced at the end of a chapter rather unobtrusively called "The means of correct training">>
The ambition is astonishing, but surprisingly implicit. No “The aim of this book is to etc”. Step by step, Foucault builds a coherent, self-contained theory, which he constructs from historical data, but he doesn’t explicitly “sell” it as a theoretical book. See for instance the closing words: >>
December 21, 2024 at 11:53 AM
The ambition is astonishing, but surprisingly implicit. No “The aim of this book is to etc”. Step by step, Foucault builds a coherent, self-contained theory, which he constructs from historical data, but he doesn’t explicitly “sell” it as a theoretical book. See for instance the closing words: >>
I was reading the 1982 Penguin edition that I inherited from my father (who died in 1991, aged 46). with his annotations and underlining. He made it to page 98 >>
December 21, 2024 at 11:51 AM
I was reading the 1982 Penguin edition that I inherited from my father (who died in 1991, aged 46). with his annotations and underlining. He made it to page 98 >>
Thread: I have quite a bit of time on my hands of late, so I am (re)reading some classics, starting with Discipline and Punish. A briljant, strange book, suprisingly different from the textbook version (scary opening, Panopticon, docile bodies etc) most people have in mind. Some thoughts >>
December 21, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Thread: I have quite a bit of time on my hands of late, so I am (re)reading some classics, starting with Discipline and Punish. A briljant, strange book, suprisingly different from the textbook version (scary opening, Panopticon, docile bodies etc) most people have in mind. Some thoughts >>
Dutch annual crafting ritual for St Nick's: hiding your gift in some creative personalized object called surprise (Dutch faux French, surprisuh) accompanied by a poem. Making a papier-mache horse, observed by a puzzled spectactator (as promised @ichatterjea.bsky.social)
December 1, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Dutch annual crafting ritual for St Nick's: hiding your gift in some creative personalized object called surprise (Dutch faux French, surprisuh) accompanied by a poem. Making a papier-mache horse, observed by a puzzled spectactator (as promised @ichatterjea.bsky.social)
Sinterklaas is weer in 't land.
December 1, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Sinterklaas is weer in 't land.
Finally a family photograph I can share on my socials.
October 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Finally a family photograph I can share on my socials.
Testimony of Palestinian refugee student at KU Leuven. Again very well made. Interesting: he is shown praying, very early on in the clip. See screenshot.
September 27, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Testimony of Palestinian refugee student at KU Leuven. Again very well made. Interesting: he is shown praying, very early on in the clip. See screenshot.
Most of the time it's easy to forget that I work at a Catholic Uni, but not today. Live stream of the Pope's visit to celebrate 600 years of KU Leuven. Visit is hotly debated in Belgium, and the professionally edited stream is, well, intriguing:
Rector welcomes Pope:
Rector welcomes Pope:
September 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
Most of the time it's easy to forget that I work at a Catholic Uni, but not today. Live stream of the Pope's visit to celebrate 600 years of KU Leuven. Visit is hotly debated in Belgium, and the professionally edited stream is, well, intriguing:
Rector welcomes Pope:
Rector welcomes Pope:
(part 2) This article, based on fieldwork of Sylvia Holla and Elise van der Laan and myself, analyzes the periphery: how is peripheral cultural production structured, and how is it experienced? We draw on Du Bois, Bourdieu and others to theorize 'peripherality' as axis of inequality >>
September 24, 2024 at 6:44 AM
(part 2) This article, based on fieldwork of Sylvia Holla and Elise van der Laan and myself, analyzes the periphery: how is peripheral cultural production structured, and how is it experienced? We draw on Du Bois, Bourdieu and others to theorize 'peripherality' as axis of inequality >>