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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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

WHY SHOULD THE CHINESE PAY ANY ATTENTION?

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I’ve been reflecting on my last 50 years of efforts at reforming public service systems – seeing if there was anything I could add to what I...

Saturday, September 4, 2021

Evoking Zeitgeist

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One of the most difficult challenges for any writer is to try to evoke the spirit of a nation - in a balanced but insightful way. Chauvinism...

Saturday, January 27, 2018

Alternatives....how the media could actually help the development of the good society

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I’m encouraged by two new discussion initiatives just announced by The Guardian – the first promises to ….. investigate real-world exa...

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

French Letters

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The last post suggested it was not easy to find well-written books which gave a true sense of the intellectual styles and trajectories of ...

Sunday, September 10, 2017

Styles of Thinking.....and writing

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I’ve been quiet these past few weeks largely because of the arrival here in the mountains of a (rare) Amazon package containing a fascinati...

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Some Landmarks for the blog

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Blog traffic has been increasing here – hitting 10,000 last month for the first time (a 3-fold increase since last year) and now totaling ...

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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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