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”.

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

A confession

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At University I read Karl Popper and was an enthusiast. I was a Croslandite – fan of “ The Future of Socialism ” (1956) – a Gaitskellite ch...

Thursday, April 24, 2025

the importance of countervailing power

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I’ve been looking for some time for a book which does justice to our fall from innocence in the 1970s. I start from JK Galbraith’s concept o...

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

The Long Search for Democracy – final chapters

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The final chapters of my book are four in number – ”the voice of praxis in administrative reform”; ”the process of change”; ”taking back con...

Monday, April 21, 2025

My draft - continued. "The Long Search for Democracy" - part II

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A series of interesting tensions emerge from the first two chapters of my The Long Search for Democracy - best represented as Manichea...

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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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