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 23, 2011

Living without the luxuries

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Monday early saw me at the Military hospital again – this time to a floor so munificent it must have been designed for the Generals and Adm...

Sunday, October 2, 2011

In praise of self-sufficiency

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For the last few years, it’s been fashionable for these with a concern about declining resources to measure their "ecological foorprin...

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Resilience - a more appropriate national index?

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Three questions arise from reading Orlov’s Reinventing Collapse – to which two of my recent posts have given extensive coverage • Do Euro...

Friday, September 30, 2011

Letter to the younger generation

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At my stage of life, I sometimes get asked for career advice by some of the younger colleagues who have worked with me. I always find it dif...

Monday, September 12, 2011

Do we need the state?

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On Friday, the clouds were mottled and swirling in a string wind – autumn, it seemed, had closed down summer. But the last 2 days have be...

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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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