These are the blog entries I wrote when doing fieldwork for my PhD project in 2013 and 2014. They were all published on the website of the Maastricht School of Management. Some are still available there, others I have uploaded as pdf files.
If you experience problems accessing the blogs, please email me.
FIELDWORK BLOGS
2014 | OCTOBER
The Palestinians Again... The Bad PR of Protracted Victimhood
2014 | OCTOBER
Is there Anything Local about Local Governance? Decision-Making in an Institutional Vacuum
2014 | SEPTEMBER
Checkpoints: Who is Checking and Who is Checked?
2014 | SEPTEMBER
The Clash between Generations Revisited
2014 | AUGUST
Paving the Road to Electoral Gain
2014 | JULY
From FIFA to GAZA: Ramadan Kareem?
2014 | JULY
My First Steps in Qasmiye: Flags, Signs and Territories
2014 | JUNE
The 'Why' of Doing Research and the Lures of Narcissim, Snobbism and Megalomania
2014 | JUNE
From the Categorized Coding of Deskwork to the Mandatory Mindfulness of Fieldwork
2013 | AUGUST
'Please Tell you People We're Not Terrorists'
2013 | JULY
Electricity: Political Fireworks
2013 | JULY
There is No Escaping the System
2013 | JULY
2013 | JULY
2013 | JUNE
2013 | JUNE
2013 | JUNE
The Continuous Identity Crisis that is Fieldwork
2013 | MAY
'PRS:' Problems Relating to Syria
2013 | MAY
Navigating Research and Reality in an Informal Palestinian Camp in South Lebanon