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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Friday, April 19, 2019

On being serious in letters

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Being part II of of the introduction to Dispatches to the next generation – the short version I thought it would be useful to try t...

Thursday, April 18, 2019

Making sense of it all

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It was in 2000 or thereabouts that I first started to feel that the world had taken a wrong turning – a short paper called Guide for the ...

Sunday, March 18, 2018

A Priceless Guide to the writing about the Global Crisis

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The last post tried not only to identify what it was that had so impressed me about the “Defending Politics” book but also to generalise po...

Monday, September 25, 2017

Making Sense of the Global Crisis

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Earlier this year, I ran a series of ten posts which started with a simple question – why are we so badly served with books about the eco...

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

the concerned citizen is very badly served

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You would think that, after the last decade of the global crisis, it would not be difficult to find a few impartial books clearly written...

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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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