These are things that I jotted down while listening to Paul's comments. If anybody would like to comment (or if anybody even sees this), I would greatly appreciate it.
* How do coffeeshops fit in with or become part of people's daily routines?
* Look at pragmatic tolerance around coffeeshops not as something inherent to the culture, but as part of a process of fight and compromise that has played out in Dutch culture over the last several decades (and I have at least one article to back this up). It's not a factor in the creation of coffeehouses as a social institution, but a result of these conflicts.
* Don't try to make it more wholesome than it is, and seek out where the contradictions and conflicts are.
* How does the drug policy play out in international relations?
* Focus on one small and interesting question.
* Methodological issues, RE: variability as relates to the fact that we are two different people conducting interviews. Where are the places where we can introduce stability into our findings? It's true that in my own research I have usually resisted this type of rigidity, but if we want to try to merge our work, it could be important for us to think about standardization of results.
* WODC studies coffeeshops a lot. Main problem with their research is how to track behavior. We should look into their research, and Paul said that he could get us in contact with some people working there.
* Speaking of contacting Paul, I never actually talked to him about our research project like I had intended to when he was here. I would like to get a plan that is a little more solid than what we have right now (do you feel like it isn't solid? The presentation exposed a lot of holes to me, which is something that we should talk about ASAP), e-mail it to him and get him a bit more directly involved in what we're doing. If this lines up with VKS stuff at all, even potentially, I would personally love the chance to spend some extra time in there.
* Julie has the web address for the Addiction Studies Institute thing that is happening in Amsterdam this Summer. I will contact her right away for the web address.
* What do we hope to ADD to the discourse around coffeeshops and the culture around them? Part of answering this question is going to necessitate becoming more familiar with that discourse. I'll contact Paul for the WODC stuff ASAP, and we'll both have to spend some time digging through it. We definitely have our work cut out for us over the next couple of weeks.
* When we were asked what our project was about, both of us jumped straight to the question of where/how they exist in the Dutch cultural space. So, how do we get to that? What is being studied? Who should we be talking to to get at that information?
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