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, June 18, 2020

Learning to Learn

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For 17 years I was allowed to call myself a “lecturer” which I could have included in my Sceptic’s Glossary as “someone who spouts words”...

Friday, June 13, 2014

Reflections on my years in Kyrgyzstan

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The curiously named William and Mary College in the US contacted me today to invite me to take part in a survey about the development ...

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Success in spite of the logframe - Part II

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I'm revisiting some of my projects - trying to show how the successes came in spite of rather than because of the project management sy...

Thursday, August 26, 2010

tribes, traditions and transitions

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A time for superficial dipping – with another Amazon packet thudding onto the table. At the moment I’m locked into Jonathan Watt’s grim jou...

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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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