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, June 2, 2015

Praising - not Burying

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People writing books on social affairs will usually spend at least a couple of years on their book – only to see it dealt with in a 1,00...

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Back to Capitalism

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The big issue when I was becoming politically aware in the 1950s was about company ownership. Managers, it was argued, were replacing own...

Friday, November 12, 2010

Four basic questions

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The glorious weather of the last few weeks here in the mountains seems at last to be changing. And I shall be heading down to the plains to...

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Romania's stark realities - and what is to be done?

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British insularity is such that, over the past century, there have been only a handful of academics with an interest in Romania. In the fi...

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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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