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”.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Getting to Denmark?

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Performance management and measurement was all the rage a few years ago but a series of academic critiques (of which  Paradoxes of Moderni...

Round Up

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A week, a British Prime Minister once famously said, is a long time in politics. And it’s been an extraordinary five days in British pol...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Exit, Voice and Loyalty

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A couple of more philosophical items caught my feverish eye yesterday morning – the first an elegant article in American Scholar about the...
Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Checking the Scenarios

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I wanted to check out my feeling that even serious contributors to the discussion about Scottish Independence haven’t given us alternative...
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The Last Golden Summer?

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In late March, I bemoaned the absence in the discussions of the past 2 years during the Scottish referendum of any “serious attempt to de...
Monday, September 8, 2014

Separating - the book

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It’s not every day that one’s home country decides to separate from the larger state which has been a crucial part of its identity for 300...
Sunday, September 7, 2014

In Praise of Doubt

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Expect productivity in Scottish industry and commerce to decline dramatically in the next 10 days as those living and working in the count...

Clarity…..but Confusion

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The reverbations resound loud and clear this Sunday morning the length and breadth of Britain – as people south of the border wake up to t...
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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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