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”.

Friday, April 14, 2017

How the Scales Fell from our Eyes

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When, some 15 years ago, I was Team Leader of an EC-funded project in Central Asia I tried to formulate what I saw as the “gold standard” ...

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Ways of Seeing

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You may have noticed that the last few posts have mentioned the importance of trying to see the world from a variety of perspectives. I ...

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Stories We Tell

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As I was skimming the hundreds of books I have been checking for the working draft of my Dispatches to the Next Generation , I was remi...

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Part V - Thinking Beyond Capitalism

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Sadly, my blogspot host (in all other respects so generous) doesn’t give the option of uploading pdf files – which I need for my diagram...

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Sketches of a new world? - part IV of the series

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My recent posts won’t have made a great deal of sense to those who have come to the blog for the first time (you can actually read each ye...

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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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