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 15, 2021

Helping People Help Themselves

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“Development” is a strange word. It’s been prefixed to so many other words – community, economic, rural, regional, social, urban – that we t...

Friday, April 21, 2017

Power - the elephant in the room

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My field of endeavour over the past half century has been “development” – but not of the international sort. I started with “ community de...

Friday, August 14, 2015

Fast Reading - Ten Tricks

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I’ve reached the last chapter of Easterly’s The Tyranny of Experts and have great sympathy with a review which starts - I wanted to lo...

Thursday, August 13, 2015

The Tribalism of the intellect

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Normal people get hooked on detective novels….eccentrics like me get their fixes from books about things like development.. The habit st...

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Different Faces of Power

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I have been reading a provocative book about “development” which came out recently and whose very title gives a flavour of its thesis - ...

Monday, May 18, 2015

Organisational Health - time to change the medicine if not the doctor......

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I’ve been “ doing development ” for so long that I’ve just begun to realise how odd if not questionable an activity it is……preying on pe...

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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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