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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Thursday, December 3, 2020

a taster for "Dispatches to the Next Generation"

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As I was born DURING the second-world war, I strictly don’t qualify as a “baby-boomer” since those were born in the more optimistic period ...

Friday, April 26, 2019

Six Questions about the new draft

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The book has now expanded to 140 pages – each of which seems to have half a dozen hyperlinks. That makes almost 1000 of them. The book stil...

Thursday, April 25, 2019

"A Pluralist “Reader’s Digest” Guide to the Global Crisis"??

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One of the great features of British newspapers – apart from the cartoons – used to be the “Parliamentary Sketch”. Television cameras we...

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Invitation to a lucky Dip

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Being part III of the marketing for Dispatches to the next generation I generally write for myself – to help me make sense of things. ...

Sunday, March 18, 2018

A Priceless Guide to the writing about the Global Crisis

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The last post tried not only to identify what it was that had so impressed me about the “Defending Politics” book but also to generalise po...

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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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