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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Saturday, May 8, 2021

How does a country go about constructing a hopeful future?

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It’s been fashionable recently to write about how countries fail – but the challenge of finding countries which have put together a winnin...

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Whatever happened to good governance and anti-corruption?

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Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU has come – and almost gone…It has not been the disaster many people predicted not least the P...

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Playing Games with a serious issue?

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Part of me understands the groans (sometimes more than metaphorical!) which meet the term “ public management reform ” whenever it comes up...

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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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