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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Sunday, September 11, 2022

A Bad Start for a new King

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Charles III has been in authority over us for some 24 hours and has already succeeded in making me very angry – on 3 counts. By craf...

Thursday, December 16, 2021

What will it take to rekindle our lost faith in the political process?

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This is the time of year I devote to reviewing the year’s posts to see what sort of sense they make. Two years ago – on noticing a few commo...

Friday, May 14, 2021

Those Clever Romans – the tactical Playbook of the Corporate Elites

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That’s half a dozen posts I’ve done in a row on the apparent increased divisiveness in our societies – without any real attempt at either ex...

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Democracy as skeleton, flesh AND blood

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I have, these past few days, been fixated on the question of the future of education – triggered partly by what is apparently a famous TED ...

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Masterclasses in reviewing non-fiction books

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This is the first of a couple of posts looking at the lessons we can learn from two great practitioners of the reviewing non-fiction books –...

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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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