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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Geweldige illustratie in NRC vandaag

Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Until that time, disaster were followed by (e.g., about the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger) cycles of verbal jokes. The type of images that we now know as memes existed only on websites such as "Bert is evil" , which featured this image as early as 1998: >>

Bert (from Sesame Street) with osama Bin Laden

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Beside many other things, 9/11 was also the moment that memes became mainstream. I saw the first 9/11 meme 2 days after the attack, and over the next 2 months collected 646 memes such as the one below: >>

King Kong on the World Trade Center, crushing a plane. Text: Where was Kingkong when we needed him?

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Zoon (bijna 12) maakte een poster voor mijn boek. 😍 Het ligt nu bij de drukker. Nog tien dagen en het is er! Wel alvast te bestellen bij @dasmag.nl.

blue background, with photo in black and white of author and book cover. Text: 16 september bij jou in de winkel

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tussen Mark Elchardus en Paul Scheffer in de cultuurtips van de De Standaard... (wat wil een mens nog meer)

screenshot of part of a newspaper page, with announcement of new books for the fall, including my own Lelijke Mooie Wereld

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At the book market at the ESA conference in Warsaw I spotted the editor putting our Handbook of Beauty and Inequality to good use: propping up her laptop during a Zoom call. It is indeed quite hefty, as you can see on the next image with my co-editor @outisarpila.bsky.social

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Het boek is af! 16 september in de winkel, nu al te bestellen via dasmag.nl.

word doc page
LELIJKE MOOIE WERELD

Giselinde Kuipers

6 juli 2026

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Zie ook de zeer terechte opmerking van @merijnoudenampsen.org aan het eind van het stuk over de rol van politieke elites. "Kloven" hebben nooit vanzelfsprekende politieke gevolgen, dat is altijd een strategische/ideologische keuze.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

there are a lot of horror stories about Deutsche Bahn these days but my train to Duesseldorf is still perfectly on schedule.(PS these trains are called ICE or Inter City Express)

German ICE train on platform at Munich central station

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Took the 1810 night train from Rome Tiburtina. The brand new nightjet trains of Austrian railways have nifty capsules, quite comfortable if you aren't tall, large-bodied or claustrophobic. Woke up with breakfast in the Alps.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Now on my way back from Rome to Utrecht, with the night train to Munich, day train to Utrecht. A bit surprised to report all is going swimmingly. Currently crossing snow covered Bavaria

Trees and house against a hill, lots of snow

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Arrived at the ESA conference and happy to see Bourdieu stiil going going strong

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

944. Continuing my report of the train trip from Utrecht to Rome. Just passed Milan, but some pics from our departure from Turin this morning courtesy of PhD student Narges Pirhayati

Wanying, Narges, Giselinde in front of Turin station

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Not a good picture (fast train, old phone) but the view on leaving Turin: Alps, snow capped, and morning fog. And a highway.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

8:00. Personally escorted to the fast Frecciarossa train to Rome, assigned a seat on the spot. Remembered the Italian talent for improvisation.. (I spent quite a bit of time doing fieldwork here)

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

720. Leaving the Turin hotel to continue our trip to Rome after train troubles yesterday. Will continue to report ..

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The day ended rather unexpectedly in a hotel room in Turin. Receptionist seemed a bit surprised by thr diversity of the passports of the travel company: Dutch, Polish, Belgian, Ghanaian, and Iranian.

View from a window with shutters, Italian street, scooter.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Well this was a bit more adventurous than expected. Still in Modane

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Still on my way from Utrecht to Rome. hasty transfer by metro to Gare de Lyon. Found Leuven colleagues. Train to Turin delayed.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

10 am. Passing Brussels and the headquarters of our most generous funder the European Research Council. thank you @erc.europa.eu . The ERC team and other colleagues are ahead of me, I will catch up with them in Paris.

EU highrise buildings along railway tracks.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I am on my way to the midterm conference of the European Sociological Association. Presentation not finished yet (as per usual).

Laptop, train window, powerpoint presentation: Ugly beautiful world.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

8:58. Train from Rotterdam to Paris. Sun has risen in the meantime.

Train platform, person with luggage, stairs, blue screen that reads Paris Nord 8:58

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Today I will travel from Utrecht (NL) to Rome in one day, by train. I guess everyone here can use some distraction and sense of global connectedness so I'll update you on the trip: 8:03 departure Utrecht Central Station

Railway platform, train, highrise buildings, brightly lit in darkness

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The concert included parts of the Nutcracker suite, arranged for mini organ, flugelhorn and finger whistling. Happy holidays everyone!

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

For everyone in need of some comfort and joy these days: Yesterday the inimitable Reinier Sijpkens gave his annual pre-holiday concert in the canals of Utrecht, on his boat the nutshell, which has a built-in mini church organ:>>

picture of a boat on a canal at sundown, in front of a bridge with two arches.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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 >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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:

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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. >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

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.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Ik heb weer eens een mening. "Waarom bieden gymnasia niet, naast Latijn en Grieks ook Arabisch en Chinees aan? "

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

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.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ik dacht dat de klok op het station al maanden stil stond maar misschien vergiste ik me en is het de doomsday clock.

Clock at Utrecht central station at 1 to 12.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Met geweldige vormgeving ook van Irma Boom.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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:

deel van het voorwoord van het Cahier, geschreven door Anthony Heidweiller en Liesbeth Bik

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Zoon kijkt vogels, ik kijk vogelaars. Zondagochtend, Oosterschelde: zeldzame Pacifische parelduiker (dwaalgast, nooit eerder in NL gezien) trekt bekijks.

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

But also strangely beautiful sections, such as this one the carnivalesque festival of chain-gangs. >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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">>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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: >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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 >>

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Giselinde Kuipers @giselinde.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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 >>

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