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”.

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...

Friday, November 23, 2018

Controlling the Masses

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Second-hand bookshops do not get enough credit – first for their shelter from the juggernaut marketing of fashionable titles and then with ...

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Complacency of the European Class

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After the last post – on identity and political correctness – was it coincidence or serendipity that brought The Strange Death of Europe –...

Friday, November 9, 2018

Identity Politics

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How has it come to pass that the world is divided these days on the issue of identity and political correctness?? Is it the insidious resu...

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

The Zombies take over the OECD

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Time was when I read avidly everything the OECD produced on public management…..it was so clearly-written and uplifting…..I actually delive...

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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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