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, 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 ...

Friday, September 25, 2020

Whatever Happened to Planning?

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The last couple of days I’ve been recalling some of the giants of the Planning field – particularly John Friedmann , born in Vienna in 1926 ...

Saturday, October 17, 2009

part VI - trying to tame the system

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I realise that I am breaking the rules of blogging (and writing) by using it to serialise a longer paper. What you are reading first on a b...

seminal reading and experiences

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Honore Daumier Smuggler Watch him when he opens his bulging words – justice Fraternity, freedom, internationalism, peace, Peace, peac...

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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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