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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Sunday, January 10, 2021

Things go Up..and Down...and round-about

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A lot of clever people have devoted a lot of intellectual effort to suggest that all novels can be reduced to 6-7 basic plots which are a...

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Stories we tell

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Since we were small children, we have all needed stories – to help us understand and come to terms with the strange world we inhabit. In...

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Talking - not Writing....

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Two very charming and unusual websites which humanise ideas and writing – first Web of Stories which consists of videos of short chats of...

Thursday, January 12, 2012

The power of stories

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In the past few weeks, I’ve been going through the 500 pages of text and pictures which the blogging of the past 2-3 years has produced – a...

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

the search for the holy grail

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One of my problems has always been that I imagine that the next book I read will give me the key to the problematics about effective organi...

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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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