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Luuc Brans

@luuc.bsky.social
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Fulbright Scholar at Columbia / FWO Postdoc sociology KU Leuven Researching politics of climate crisis in culture, esp in fashion 🏡NYC - Bruxelles - Amsterdam 🔗www.luucbrans.eu

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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
terwijl er eigenlijk al niks meer vanaf kan. Aan alles - van gebouw tot onderbemensing - merk je eigenlijk dat de boel al failliet is en alleen nog via rare en ongezonde kunstgrepen draaiende blijft. Daardoor blijft politiek ook denken: oh kan nog wel wat vanaf en nog een beetje en nog een beetje ….
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Het is wat onhandig geknipt misschien maar vlak hiervoor vertelt @lotfielhamidi.bsky.social over de intifada en Israëlisch geweld met Amerikaanse wapens in die context, daar verwijst ‘ie hier naar
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Linda Duits @lalalalinder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Samen met @luuc.bsky.social schreef ik opinie over looksmaxxing: dat heeft niks te maken met schoonheidsidealen, maar is onderdeel van een rechts-conservatief project dat ideologisch moet worden bestreden www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Opinie | Looksmaxxing is een teken van oprukkend rechtsextremisme
Online beweging: Looksmaxxing heeft niks te maken met doorgeslagen schoonheidsidealen, betogen Luuc Brans en Linda Duits. Het is onderdeel van een rechts-conservatief project dat ideologisch moet word...
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Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Happy publication day(+1) to Lorenza Antonucci @camsociology.bsky.social for 'Insecurity Politics', out now with @princetonupress.bsky.social: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... - exploring the everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism
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Insecurity Politics
The everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism
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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.
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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Dit is wat regeringen zouden moeten doen. Besturen is niet “complex”. Natuurlijk zijn er dilemma’s, maar de naleving van het internationaal recht hoort daar niet bij.
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
💥 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 💥 International survey of 1138 scholars across 77 countries - plus four focus groups - maps the what, how and why. 69.2% already use it for at least one research task, especially writing and literature review. 5 takeaways: medium.com/@hannes.cool...
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Five Takeaways From the ‘First-of-its-kind’ International Survey About the Use of Generative AI in…
If Generative AI seemed inevitable to you one day and off-limits the next, you are not alone. In this preprint, results of a…
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Interesting stuff, Hannes. What strikes me is that (declared) AI-use is becoming a form of negative symbolic capital, i.e. the non-use of AI offers certain status rewards in the acad. field. This ofc reproduces existing hierarchies (native speakers vs non-native)... not sure how to overcome this.
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This is why 'luxury is more (socially) sustainable' is a myth and not only in fashion. 'Made in Italy' can still mean 'Made in Abusive and Exploitative Conditions'..)
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Italian police seek governance documents from 13 fashion firms in labour abuse probe
Italian police on Wednesday visited the headquarters of 13 high-end fashion firms, asking them to hand over documents on governance and supply-chain controls as part of an investigation into alleged w...
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NRC @nrc.nl · 04/12/2025
Italiaanse politie bezoekt modemerken als Prada en Versace vanwege mogelijke uitbuiting
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Italiaanse politie bezoekt modemerken als Prada en Versace vanwege mogelijke uitbuiting
De Italiaanse politie heeft op hoofdkantoren van dertien bekende modebedrijven documenten opgevraagd over hun omgang met toeleveranciers en in hoeverre ze uitbuiting proberen te…
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
/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!💫
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
/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.
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
/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)
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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...
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🎧🌿 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!
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From Happy Meat to Eco-Types: The Cultural Politics of the Climate Crisis
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Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Open vacancy for a Professorship in British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund👀 tudberufung.hr4you.org/job/view/707...
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Professorship (W3) British Cultural Studies in a Global Context
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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...
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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.
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Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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...
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The Sound of Elites: How Elites Navigate a Meritocratic and Anti-Elite World
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Magne P. Flemmen @magneflemmen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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/... 🌱📊
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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...
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
✨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 🙏
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🎉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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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
'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.
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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...
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Onder Mediadoctoren @ondermediadoctoren.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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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Afl 201: Mode & de klimaatcrisis | Onder Mediadoctoren
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Seen this? Quite elegant and less reductive (but also somewhat less seductive...) bsky.app/profile/camp...
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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 🧵
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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025
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.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I’ve noticed that tendency too, which is why they’re always quite surprised when you follow up on an individual conversation some weeks later (ranging from ‘how did that stressful assignment for your other course pan out?’ to ‘how’s your ill cat/dog/kid that caused your absence doing now?’)
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Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I spoke to @theguardian.com for their podcast today about the enduring propulsive power of Britain’s private schools, and the impact it has on the politics we get 🎧 www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
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Will Labour take on the power of private schools in the UK? – podcast
Professor of sociology Sam Friedman charts the enduring influence of private schools in the making of the British elite and asks whether the Labour government is looking finally to curtail it
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Mischa Dekker @dekkermischa.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
New article in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly and I’m quite proud of this one! What Shapes Feminist Journalism? Comparing Dutch and French Reporting on Street Harassment journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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What Shapes Feminist Journalism? Comparing Dutch and French Reporting on Street Harassment - Mischa J. T. Dekker, 2024
What leads journalists to adopt feminist framings by linking news topics to gender-based inequalities? While scholarship often mobilizes individualized explanat...
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Would be great if you could include me!
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Wat goed! Gefeliciteerd, dr. Britt!
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Tiziano Piccardi @tiziano.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization? We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️
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South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
💡NEW STUDY FINDS…💡 Most people are willing to infer ideological/partisan preferences based on #food consumption choices in #Italy 🥕🥦🥩🍤 Read the article by G. Scaduto & F. Negri ⌛ HURRY UP! #FreeAccess here until 30th November 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Grim reading, especially on a Sunday when writing postdoc grant applications - but interesting too. Thanks for sharing
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?
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Rolf Oldejans @rolfoldejans.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is a dawn on Mars captured by Opportunity rover.
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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 20/11/2024
To all the researchers here on @bsky.app for whom the topic data access from online platforms is relevant, please consider writing a short feedback on the draft of the delegated acts for the DSA: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Beautiful. Esp the 1997 one made me melancholic. The past really is a different country eh?
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Jelena Brankovic @jelena3121.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I won't lie if I say that some of the posters from the exhibition "The art of integration: 40 posters promoting #Europe" at the EU #archives in Florence made me a little bit sentimental, even sad, given where things are now. Some posters are also really beautiful and interesting to look at.
Posters promoting Europe:
Europa unita per il progresso e per la pace, 1957Posters promoting Europe: A people’s EuropePosters promoting Europe: 
European year against racism, 1997
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Great list! Would to love to be added to it!
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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
🚨 Those from upper-middle-class backgrounds, and the privately-educated, are significantly overrepresented in the creative professions in the UK. Our new research uncovers stark inequalities in access to careers in the creative industries, including television, film, and music 🧵
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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
6. Hyland et al.: Feeling overlooked: A rural–urban divide in recognition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Feeling overlooked: A rural–urban divide in recognition
The farmers' protests sweeping across Europe during the early month of 2024 have highlighted the discontent felt by many residing in rural areas. Protests have been motivated by increasing input cost....
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Nora Waitkus @norawaitkus.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
🚨💰New paper with @marentoft.bsky.social and #MikeSavage in #Sociology: In this theoretical intervention, we show how different approaches to class analysis can be easily mobilized to study contemporary wealth and asset inequality dynamics! 💰🚨 doi.org/10.1177/0038... #SociologyJournal #Wealth #Class
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Wealth and Class Analysis: Exploitation, Closure and Exclusion - Nora Waitkus, Mike Savage, Maren Toft, 2024
Wealth inequalities are increasingly prominent in contemporary societies but they have not been systematically addressed by sociological class analysis. However...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
In "Poor Things," @lendavis.bsky.social writes about “poornography”: distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Read the introduction for free now: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
Cover of Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It by Lennard J. Davis. Cover features a halftone illustration of an adult hand dropping a coin into the outstretched palm of a child. A color filter overlays the image; most of the image is blue-tone, but the hands are encircled in bright red. The text “Poor Things” is in white chunky lettering.
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Thijs van Dooremalen @tvdooremalen.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Crises responses are created in reference to the meanings of other crises. How can we study such processes? And how do they work out for the cases of climate change and Covid? We answer these questions in our new International Sociology article! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Luuc Brans @luuc.bsky.social · 13/08/2024
Het r-woord lijkt dan weer voor de correspondent van dienst een heikel onderwerp...
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