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”.

Showing posts with label scandinavia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scandinavia. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

The Scottish Soul – from the outside

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Skimming the books about Scandinavia got me thinking about how contemporary Scotland might look to an outsider. Of course, having lived for ...
Friday, June 10, 2011

The Nordic model

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Conventional wisdom in financial centres characterizes the welfare state as wasteful and inefficient, penalizing good hard-working people i...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

a day's reading

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I vowed to do a blog each day – partly to encourage the tiny readership I have but also because it is an important discipline – writing is m...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

the scandinavian contribution

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The Scandinavian contribution to public administration - at both a practical and theoretical level - is under-estimated. Sweden, for exam...
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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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