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 26, 2019

Six Questions about the new draft

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The book has now expanded to 140 pages – each of which seems to have half a dozen hyperlinks. That makes almost 1000 of them. The book stil...

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

spring cleaning - with a difference

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Spring cleaning is generally a chore but can, if serendipity is in the air, be a pleasure – particularly if the focus of removal is ........

Thursday, April 4, 2019

Memorable Texts

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Rereading a book after a gap of 50 years can be a grave disappointment – that was certainly the case for me recently when I was able to d...

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Books on Big Issues - Prefaces and marketing blurbs

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I did a rare thing yesterday – I went back to the "Defending Politics" book I had just finished and reread it from beginning to e...

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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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