I am not in the book, despite being one of the major contributors in the group she was studying (Kraakgroep Amsterdam Oost). Basically everyone except me is in there.
I find that pretty funny and at the same time a sign of the author's lack of professionalism. The two of us didn't like each other much, but I wouldn't have been so childish as to refuse her a contribution. I can only assume that she was unable to set her personal feelings aside and interview me for the book. Instead she took the cheap way out and focused on her lovers, her housemates and other people she had access to without having to take the slightest effort, just as it is really apparent from the whole book (yes I read all of it) that she didn't do the legwork which would have been involved in interviewing people from other squatting groups.
When I started studying I began with journalism, and as one assignment we had to make a report. I wrote about some stuff that I was doing anyway in my free time. The prof told me that it was a cheap cop-out to do so, and that the assignment was meant for us to immerse ourselves into an environment and a theme that isn't our default setting. That is exactly what she did there though, and I can only agree with my former teacher.
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I am not in the book, despite being one of the major contributors in the group she was studying (Kraakgroep Amsterdam Oost). Basically everyone except me is in there.
I find that pretty funny and at the same time a sign of the author's lack of professionalism. The two of us didn't like each other much, but I wouldn't have been so childish as to refuse her a contribution. I can only assume that she was unable to set her personal feelings aside and interview me for the book. Instead she took the cheap way out and focused on her lovers, her housemates and other people she had access to without having to take the slightest effort, just as it is really apparent from the whole book (yes I read all of it) that she didn't do the legwork which would have been involved in interviewing people from other squatting groups.
When I started studying I began with journalism, and as one assignment we had to make a report. I wrote about some stuff that I was doing anyway in my free time. The prof told me that it was a cheap cop-out to do so, and that the assignment was meant for us to immerse ourselves into an environment and a theme that isn't our default setting. That is exactly what she did there though, and I can only agree with my former teacher.