Luuc Brans

Staff Writer 

Discipline: Sociology, Political Science

Research Interests: nationalism, (national) identity, sociology of culture, ethnic conflict, genocide, dealing with the past, socio-economic inequality and its relation to globalisation. 


If you were a box of cereal what would you be and why: very plain and easy: Dorset cereal - this cereal actually makes getting out of bed attractive. 


What did you want to be when you grew up: First, a fighter pilot. Sadly, I don't really have 20/20 vision, to say the least, and I later found out I'm a wee bit too pacifist to operate a war machine. After that, I wanted to be a superhero - I was entranced by Darkwing Duck when I was younger.

Where are you right now: Meadowlark cafe!

Tell us something about another staff writer: Katherine doesn't approve of one of my many embarrassing guilty pleasures: listening to R Kelly

Luuc's Articles

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Reflections of a teaching graduate
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As many readers will probably agree, graduating from university is a strange experience. One has to find their way in a new post-academic reality. 

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Student Protests Spring? A global movement or isolated local anger?
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Student Protests Spring? A global movement or isolated local anger?
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In this post I will examine the different student protests in the UK and the Netherlands, and ask whether they form part of a new truly global student movement with concerns transcending the level of university parochialism, or whether they are just isolated incidents.

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Who are the people?: Why Pegida is as much about Germany’s self-image as about Muslim immigration.
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Who are the people?: Why Pegida is as much about Germany’s self-image as about Muslim immigration.
Luuc Brans

In recent weeks, Germany has been rattled by a grass-roots, anti-immigration social movement called Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident (Pegida). For months, this movement has organized street marches every Monday evening in cities throughout Germany, most successfully so in the East German city of Dresden

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