Luuc Brans
luuc.bsky.social
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
/4 🎓 This is the final episode before summer. For me, it marks the end of a relentless academic year of mostly teaching - the purest form of public sociology. This also wraps up my first decade of teaching. More reflections on this milestone and what changed for better and worse to follow later!💫
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
/3 🙏With thanks to our stellar guests, our support from the @aissr.bsky.social ‬and @erc.europa.eu funded BINQ project (Grant No. 101052649). Shout out as well as to co-editors Kobe de Keere and Sanne Pieters and our audio wizard Geert Veuskens.
July 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
/2🎙️✨ Great as summer travel listen or teaching companion for any MA seminar on the politics of meat, climate polarization, or the cultural sociology of the climate crisis! More platforms linked below.

You can find more about Happy Meat here (bit.ly/4527yKl) and Eco-Types here (bit.ly/40TStbf)
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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July 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Reposted by Luuc Brans
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/... 🌱📊
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
✨Abstract below. Looking forward to keep on working with colleagues at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social and beyond. Grateful to those who kindly gave advice when writing this grant @giselinde.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @dekkermischa.bsky.social Michiel Stapper @yoshaw.bsky.social & others 🙏
May 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
'Wandeling' is ook zeer eufemistisch van de Standaard hier. Toen ze uit de halte op St Cat kwamen waren ze al voelbaar op jacht. En let op: VRT e.d. bestempelen dit niet zelf als racistisch, hoe overduidelijk het motief ook is, laat dat liever over aan lokale media (bruzz) en politici. Typisch.
May 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Ik zag ook al een copilot ding verschijnen in outlook. En zelfs de zoekmachine van de KU Leuven bibliotheken wil nu een AI integreren. There's no escape...
March 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Seen this? Quite elegant and less reductive (but also somewhat less seductive...)

bsky.app/profile/camp...
⚠️ Fläche wählt nicht – Menschen tun es!
⚠️ Und: Bei der Bundestagswahl gilt nicht Winner-Takes-All, sondern prozentuale Gewinne!

Wir haben hier mal eine alternative Karte gebastelt: Die Zweitstimmen der Bundestagswahl 2025 prozentual dargestellt, im Verhältnis zur Einwohnerzahl der Bundesländer.
February 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Maps like these are a seductive but also somewhat reductive reading of the result, and one that plays into western German stereotypes of the East and the Ossis. See also @benstanley.eu 's thread below bsky.app/profile/bens...
February 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM