Beauty and Inequality
The central assumption of this project is in contemporary societies, physical appearance both produces and reproduces durable social inequalities.
Giselinde Kuipers
‘The Neon Demon’ – Movie Review #1
By Carolina Rabasa Rucki ‘Sweety, plastics is just good grooming’ The Neon Demon (2016) directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Elle Fanning (Jesse) portrays
PhD researchers
All five PhD researchers are now doing their fieldwork. On this blog, they share their research impressions in short vignettes. Sanne Pieters discusses the Basic
Brussels and the Basic Fit Backpack
All five PhD researchers are now doing their fieldwork. On this blog, they share their research impressions in short vignettes. Sanne Pieters follows the Basic
The expanding beauty regime
In 2022, Giselinde published an article in which she explained how and why beauty become so important in today’s society. Following sociologists Norbert Elias, but
The ex-President’s hair: Politics and beauty in Buenos Aires
All five PhD researchers are now doing their fieldwork. On this blog, they share their research impressions in short vignettes. Carolina Rabasa Rucki looks at the hairstyle of former president Cristina de Kirchner to show how beauty is politics in Buenos Aires
Podcast: Giselinde discusses aesthetic capital with Doortje Smithuijsen
In the first episode of the Connected World podcast series, Giselinde discusses the important of beauty today with Dutch journalist Doortje Smithuijsen