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”.

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...

Crowds in Sofia and Bucharest part I

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Blogging is a pretty solitary affair so it was a real pleasure to get an approach from the man behind Boffy’s Blog and asked if I would be...

Monday, September 14, 2020

Another Milestone!

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"Peripheral Vision” has just celebrated the 400,000 th click. That’s just under 40,000 a year – about 100 a day. Not great – but I d...

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...

Thursday, September 10, 2020

So Isst die Welt – und must nicht so sein*

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Warning; this post will appeal only to those with an interest in the strange byways one’s life often takes I like books which give a sen...

Sunday, September 6, 2020

Strategies for Governing

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The origins of my fixation with public management can be traced back to an odd mix of characters – from RH Tawney , an uncompromising non-c...

Friday, September 4, 2020

David Graeber RIP

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I’m devastated to hear that the writer and activist David Graeber has suddenly died – in the prime of his life – at the incredibly early...

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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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