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, August 5, 2023

The Great Transformation

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We’re assailed by articles and books which tell us that the world is changing dramatically because of such technology as driverless cars, ke...

Thursday, September 3, 2020

The most readable Guidebooks to Economics

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I have, I readily admit, a certain fixation about the style of social science books – particularly economic ones . I have at least 5 reaso...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

Working Across Cultures - how it expands the mind

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I opened a veritable Pandora’s Box of personal memories this week – with the post on memoirs…….. Then remembered a stack of large notebo...

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Outsiders

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The weather remains amazingly mild here – registering 14 on the short motorway over the Balkans on Sunday as I drove down to Sofia althoug...

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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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