4 PhD positions: “Beauty and Inequality: Physical Appearance, Symbolic Boundaries and Social Dis/advantage in Accra/ Brussels/ Buenos Aires/ Hong Kong" KU Leuven
How does physical beauty contribute to social inequality? This innovative, multidisciplinary, comparative project builds a new theory that explains how assessments of physical appearance work, and how they re/produce enduring inequalities in contemporary media-saturated, service-based, globalized consumer societies. The hypothesis is that 1. in 21st century societies, beauty has become an important form of capital, for all genders across the ...