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, March 10, 2021

A New Authoritarianism?

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Anne Applebaum is an American journalist with academic aspirations - who won her spurs writing about the excesses of Stalinism in the border...

Monday, March 8, 2021

Bookmarks

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I’m increasingly swamped by books – both physical and virtual – and just wanted to share some of the interesting titles which are on offer a...

Sunday, March 7, 2021

If everyone has rights, no one has them

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This is the paradox which I am increasingly forced to consider. I started well – protesting at school against the massacre and exploitation ...

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...

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Rule of Law?

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If the relevance of research in ….political science is understood as how it may improve human well-being and/or political legitimacy, resear...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

The Fall - and Rise - of Positive Public Admin

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The last post flagged up what seems to have been a change in tone recently in the vast literature which has inundated us since the early 90s...

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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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