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 Fit Backpack in Brussels. 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 Fit […]
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 with a dash of Michel Foucault and Max Weber, she calls this “The expanding beauty regime”. The article was published in Critical Studies In Fashion and Beauty (paywall) but the […]
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
Akosua’s story: Ghana’s Beauty Cultures and the Price of (Non) Conformity
All five PhD researchers are now doing their fieldwork. On this blog, they share their research impressions in short vignettes. Emmanuel Narh shares the story of Akosua from Ghana “I am now content with my body; it gives me joy because now I get money to feed and help others…” These were the words of […]
On Beauty: Our Blog
The central assumption of this project is in contemporary societies, physical appearance both produces and reproduces durable social inequalities. Giselinde Kuipers Tweet