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, June 30, 2018

Managing Change…why have we lost interest?

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Let me try to summarise the argument of the recent posts about public services reform…… Our view of the State (and what we could expect...

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Avoiding Best Practice

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The last few posts (on cultural values) have led me back to the draft of a little book I abandoned two years ago – Crafting Effective Pu...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Where the buck stops

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In the 1970s and 80s, those of us struggling to reform the state (both national and local) talked about “generating understanding and commit...

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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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