I guess as one of the most active members of the KSU and main police spokesperson throughout those years I guess I did some stuff worth mentioning, but that's beside the point. In fact I guess I can be happy that she didn't put some second-hand hearsay negative stuff about me in there as she did with some other people she didn't get along with.
As for the default setting, squatting in Oost was her default social environment during those years. She states herself that she got into it to solve her housing problems. What I would have loved to see in this study is some self-reflection. She talks a lot about the concept of "squatter capital", but she never reflects how she herself was busy playing the very same game by offering services (there is even a picture of her cooking at Joe's) and dating a kraakbons (a fact she avoids mentioning throughout).
All I'm saying is, that her research process is flawed, her presentation disingenuous and the end-result therefore not as good as it could be.
If you want to read a good ethographic study that shows how it could be done then I can recommend Kapot Moeilijk by Jan Dirk de Jong (if you read Dutch, no idea if there is a translation)
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I guess as one of the most active members of the KSU and main police spokesperson throughout those years I guess I did some stuff worth mentioning, but that's beside the point. In fact I guess I can be happy that she didn't put some second-hand hearsay negative stuff about me in there as she did with some other people she didn't get along with.
As for the default setting, squatting in Oost was her default social environment during those years. She states herself that she got into it to solve her housing problems. What I would have loved to see in this study is some self-reflection. She talks a lot about the concept of "squatter capital", but she never reflects how she herself was busy playing the very same game by offering services (there is even a picture of her cooking at Joe's) and dating a kraakbons (a fact she avoids mentioning throughout).
All I'm saying is, that her research process is flawed, her presentation disingenuous and the end-result therefore not as good as it could be.
If you want to read a good ethographic study that shows how it could be done then I can recommend Kapot Moeilijk by Jan Dirk de Jong (if you read Dutch, no idea if there is a translation)