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”.

Sunday, April 20, 2025

A SHORT VERSION OF “The Long Search for Democracy”

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I sent a copy of the rather personal book about my experience of organisational reform both at home and in ex-communist countries to my Sc...

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

What’s Going on in the USA?

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The penultimate post was a long quote from a US blogger which identified two schools of thought currently dividing the USA and analysed ea...

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

APOLOGIES

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My heartfelt apologies for the way the text on the last post is overlapping with existing text on the right-hand side of the blog. I REALLY...

The Right-wing Intellectuals driving the Trump Revolution

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A new mood seems evident in “the West” (by which is generally meant Europe and the USA). It’s best expressed in the l atest post from “The L...

Wednesday, April 2, 2025

More Diaries and Memoirs

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Diaries, Letters and Memoirs I’ve taken to adding memoirs, diaries and letters whenever I come across them and can download them to the fil...

Monday, March 31, 2025

A New Voice

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At the start of the month, I did a post about the ongoing coup in the USA which listed some of the key articles helpful to an understandi...

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Why do we ignore the State?

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I’ve been trying in these last posts to make sense of the sudden turn of the US to …. what exactly? Fascism? (as per Snyder) Autocracy? (...

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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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