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, July 13, 2022

The Stories People Tell to make sense of the world - part VI of a series

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Political parties in the US and UK apparently used to be broad coalitions but have become (at least on the right) ideological sects. And tha...

Friday, January 10, 2020

57 Varieties of Capitalism

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Last October I developed a table in what was probably the most important post of the year – one in a series about capitalism. The table lis...

Monday, June 24, 2019

Reason as the servant of Passion

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One of the delights of my house in the Carpathian Mountains is the library – with books cascading from shelving which started almost 20 y...

Friday, November 2, 2018

When the spark ignites

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Sometimes a nation or a people feel such humiliation and anger about the way they are being treated that it takes only one incident to spar...

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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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