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”.

Showing posts with label Greenock. Show all posts

Sunday, June 10, 2018

Microcosm of a post-industrial town

›

It was exactly 50 years ago I ran my first successful election campaign in what was then a shipbuilding town (in its heyday, the yards ke...

Monday, June 4, 2012

Scotland as fortress against neo-liberalism?

›

Neal Ascherson is one of Scotland's few intellectual journalists and visited Greenock last year during the by-election there whose re...

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

In Praise of Fault Lines

›

I used to boast that the border of Transylvania ran through my back garden since Arges county to the south belongs to Wallachia and Braso...

Thursday, January 20, 2011

West of Scottish bards, comics and painters

›

First, congratulations to the West of Scotland poet and dramatist, Liz Lochhead, who was yesterday appointed to the position of national p...

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Remembering

›

The current issue of the (British) Prospect magazine carries a fascinating article about the various stresses to which inter-cultural marria...

›

Home

View web version

About Me

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

View my complete profile