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”.

Friday, December 14, 2018

The Nine Lessons of Brexit

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Anyone making an honest effort to explain what’s going on in the UK to a foreign audience faces a major dilemma - namely that we know eithe...

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Plus Ca Change....???

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About 25 years ago I first doodled a little table which tried to identify the key subjects which had divided opinion in each of the decade...

Sunday, December 9, 2018

"The Road to….Somewhere"

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This 2017 book may use the same metaphor and evince the same interest as Snyder’s in the causes of the political alienation and turbulence...

Monday, December 3, 2018

The Road to Unfreedom?

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Do(es) 25 years of researching the “Eastern bloodlands” unhinge your mind? This is the question I’m left pondering - in all honesty - afte...

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Romanian's National Day

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This blog has celebrated Romania’s National Day before - but today is special since it is exactly 100 years ago today that various groups ...

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Why we need to ration non-fiction books

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Since 1950, the number of book titles has soared by at least 500% - in the UK case by almost 10 times . And, since 2013, the number of non-...

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

How they get away with it – being part 5 of the series on the political class

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As you saw from the list of 20 odd books a few posts back, the journalists, political scientists and think-tankers have a lot to say about ...

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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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