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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Saturday, March 6, 2021

Anti-Corruption – a Great Game no longer

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Other societies and their cultures are strange – so we invent stories to help us understand their behavior . Thus the French are argumentati...

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Crowds and Power in Sofia and Bucharest - II

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The Nobel-prize winning author Elias Canetti was born in the Bulgarian city of Russe on the Danube in 1905 and would have had quite a few t...

Monday, September 14, 2020

Links I Liked

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1. Heads or Hands? It’s interesting that we should get 2 new books in a single month challenging one of the basic principles of our time...

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...

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Memories of political sociology

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My last post was bout the recent book - Grand Hotel Abyss – whose title refers to the accusation of the Marxist philosopher György Lukacs...

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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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