Rumbling on performativity_Frits Simon

Preface
When you are working on a PhD it is quite common to read a lot written by other
people. For some time I assumed that the writers of all these books and articles thank
in a rather dutiful way other people for their support during their research. I know
better now!
Sincerely I express my gratitude for all the people who supported me.
It was great fun to work with and to learn from Thijs Homan, Nol Groot, Herman van
den Bosch and Rob Zuijderhoudt, ‘despite’ that they are very creative and persistent in
raising a lot of questions. I will miss the discussions with deep digging Doug Griffin.
Without the involvement of Rob Bouwman, Walter Bolwerk, Cees Brouwer and Philippe
Devos it would have been a lonely ride in the twilight zone of doing research next
to a job, a family and a social life. Regrettably the intensive discussions, my learning
group and Karel V will be gone. For all this the PhD-school of the Open University
offered an inspiring environment.
The support from Karel van Rosmalen was generous, open minded and above all vital.
Many thanks for that.
Quite some other people were bothered by me and generously spend some of their
precious time. To respect their privacy I am unable to show them my gratitude by
calling their names in public. Be assured that without their investment I would have
been unable to finish my research.
I thank Mariet, the love of my life, for her lasting tolerance of my repeatedly wool-
gathering. For Sanne, Tijl and Pelle it will be clear now why they had to drag so many
books the times we moved. Thanks for that and many other things.
Frits Simon
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