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”.

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Saturday, January 27, 2024

Post-Modernity, Anyone??

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The 1960s was a critical period for Europe. My generation left the austerity of the postwar years behind and tasted freedom - not just in th...

Monday, August 28, 2023

AGAINST DESPAIR

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The Western world has, in the new millennium, become despondent. In the 90s it was euphoric – but its world came crashing down with the Twi...

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Speak, Memory - the UK in the late 1960s – part VI of the current series about “Change”

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This post has proved quite a challenge – forcing me to confront the question of the reliability of our own personal memories compared wit...

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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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