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, February 27, 2024

In Praise of the Short Book/extended essay

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15 years of serious blogging has created almost 2000 posts here – some of which are extended essays to be grouped together, with some editi...

Friday, March 29, 2019

Are Literary Magazines up to the Task?

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Although I’m not a fan of newspapers, I did succumb recently to an offer from Le Monde – even if I miss the smell of the newsprint and i...

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Saturday, November 24, 2018

Making sense of the structure of power

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I had enjoyed my reread of “The Triumph of the Political Class” (2007) to such an extent that I started to google the other titles I rememb...

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

French Letters

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The last post suggested it was not easy to find well-written books which gave a true sense of the intellectual styles and trajectories of ...

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Styles of Thinking.....and writing

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I’ve been quiet these past few weeks largely because of the arrival here in the mountains of a (rare) Amazon package containing a fascinati...

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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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