Monday, February 26, 2018

Bringing the State “back in”?? – a story about Academic Tribes

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Books are a frequent trigger for the musings here – last autumn, a small book actually inspired me to pose no fewer than 16 critical que...
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...
Monday, February 19, 2018

A Critical German Redoubt

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Grand Hotel Abyss – the lives of the Frankfurt School (2016) is the sort of book which has me salivating….it is the story of the individu...
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...

Musical Interlude

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I must confess that I hadn’t heard of the Icelandic composer Johann Johannson who has just died at the tragically young age of 48 - but I ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Crafting effective public management - why so few practitioner perspectives?

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If you want to understand a subject, would you rather have one written from a theoretical standpoint – or from a practitioner’s? Most pe...
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 ...
Saturday, January 27, 2018

Alternatives....how the media could actually help the development of the good society

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I’m encouraged by two new discussion initiatives just announced by The Guardian – the first promises to   ….. investigate real-world exa...