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”.

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Confessions of a Greenish Localist

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Cards on the table? For most of my life I’ve been a “mugwump” – with my mug on one side of the fence and my wump on the other. Hiding insi...

Saturday, July 22, 2017

The sovereign myth ....and the future of social democracy

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For the past few years, the refrain of the MSM has been that there could be no returning to the heyday of social democracy But, since Corb...

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

the Continental Divide in Public management studies

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The last post made a rather casual suggestion that “public administration reform” efforts have been analysed in very different ways in “dev...

Monday, July 17, 2017

When will it ever change???

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Another long post whose basic argument I can perhaps best summarise thus – - People were overly optimistic in 1990/91 when they talked o...

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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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