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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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

How they get away with it – being part 5 of the series on the political class

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As you saw from the list of 20 odd books a few posts back, the journalists, political scientists and think-tankers have a lot to say about ...

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Desperately seeking...Satire

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I’ve talked before about the power of satire . Fortuitously, this morning, I found a good example of its use. Contrast today’s report from...

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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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