Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

WHY SHOULD THE CHINESE PAY ANY ATTENTION?

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I’ve been reflecting on my last 50 years of efforts at reforming public service systems – seeing if there was anything I could add to what I...

Saturday, September 4, 2021

Evoking Zeitgeist

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One of the most difficult challenges for any writer is to try to evoke the spirit of a nation - in a balanced but insightful way. Chauvinism...

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Why we need to be suspicious of the idea of “political culture”

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We like to think that we are “ masters of our fate ” and it irks us when foreigners, for example, make us realise that our behaviour is oft...

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

A Celebration of writing about Italy

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Italian readers have, in recent weeks, been consistently second in the highly prestigious league table of readers of “Balkan and Carpathia...

Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Roman Romania

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Two venerable Romanians “shuffled off their mortal coils” this month – first ex-King Michael who had been forced to abdicate at gun point ...

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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