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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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!”

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I may have told the story of Strathclyde’s Social Strategy before – but being given the opportunity to reflect in Zoom conversations al...

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Born to Fail?

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50 years ago, in 1973, a small report was published which was to shape my life for the next 16 years. It was ” Born to Fail?” and exposed ...

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Strategic Change in Scotland in the 1970s

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In April I had a series of 10 posts on the subject of strategic change (and how I learned to love it in the 1970s and 1980s ) which readers...

Sunday, April 3, 2022

The Obliteration of Memories

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Googling is so easy – “everything we need is there”. Except it’s simply not true. Google has a gigantic hole which no-one talks about – kno...

Saturday, October 17, 2009

part V - more open and creative policy-making

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I have written an extensive paper about the innovative work I was involved in from 1975-1990 in the Region trying to make its policies, stru...

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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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