Love and Gratitude

Joanna Kusiak

doi:10.1017/9781009516914.008

To every single letter of Deutsche Wohnen & Co. enteignen: For writing a new world by coming repeatedly together.
To Mira: For you, I want to write a new world – and to finally stop writing. Córuś, kocham Cię.
To Grażyna Kusiak: For fostering my light and my shadow. Mamo, dziękuję.
To Lisa Eberle: For the first decade of our friendship, and all the decades to come. For laying this book out with me on the wall of a home that we fought for together.
To Simon Müller: For your owlish wisdom, outlandish humour and a human heart.
To Karsten Buch: For being a lifebuoy and a real friend. For being real. For being.
To Ralf Hoffrogge: For conducting interviews together, and for your amazing honesty and integrity. I am looking forward to reading your book!
To Ika Haug, Kalle Kunkel and Bella Rogner: For always responding to my last-minute questions.
To Jane Tinkler: For being the Senior Prize Manager worth the title. For being by my side through all the struggles.
To Charlotte Collins: For being the ultimate language wizard – and for the fun of playing with words together.
To Gillian Tett: For supporting me as a scholar, a mother, and a King’s Fellow.
To Sharon McCann: For your grace and patience as I was pushing the boundaries of the editorial process.
To Claire Sissen and Gemma Smith: For the magic of turning this book from a Word file into an object!
To Joanna Page: For the dancing conferences we will organise one day!
To Nicky Dawidowski, Judith Weik and Mette Rokus Jamasb from the CRASSH team: For the support with organising the seminars.
To the participants of the Radically Legal seminar at CRASSH: For all your comments. Every single one has helped me.
To Amelia Horgan: For jumping on board at the last moment to help.
To Peter Kadas: For your friendly threats and all the future discussions.
To Jessica Jackson and James Douglas: Let’s make a Riot!
To David Runcimann: For the advice at Fitzbillies.
To Simon Goldhill: For the dinner party I will never forget!
To Matthias Bernt: For the East-Berlin friendship that runs globally.
To Kaspar Metzkow: For double-checking all the details.
To Gosia Zmysłowska: For visualising the better tomorrow.
To Ian Clotworthy: For your pictures – and for your relentless engagement.
To Anna ‘Gabi’ Gabryjelska and Alex Hirszfeld: For trusting the process with me.
To Karim Niangane: For drawing my storms out.
To Surabhi Ranganathan: For the G5, from where it felt easier to see myself achieving this.
To Marcin Szala: For typesetting my luck!
To Max Lewandowski: For the Ryanair serendipity and caring supplementation.
To Kasia Grunt-Mejer, Jacek Grunt-Mejer, Julian Dworak, Ritu Mittal, Artur Burasz and Orlando Sanchez: For hugs and support that came at just the right moments.
To Basia Adamczuk: For being my Polish family in Cambridge.
To Chris Wray: For your hospitality at Fool’s Valley.
To King’s College, Cambridge: For being my intellectual home.
To all the people who danced with me.

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