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, October 8, 2017

State of the State – part 5

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It’s odd that “Public Bureaucracy” seems to be of so little interest to the public - since one state alone (eg the UK) can spend no less t...

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Miniatures and Matrices

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I’ve been reflecting a lot this year on my working experience of organizational change (both managing and advising state bodies) - now equ...

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

We need to talk about…… “The State”

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We need to talk about….the State. Or at least about the “machinery of government” about whose operations I am most familiar – in local and...

Sunday, October 1, 2017

How the attack on the state harms us all

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We’re all ambivalent about “the State”….We slag it off with pejorative terms…and often profess to anarchistic and libertarian tendencies…....

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Monday, September 25, 2017

Making Sense of the Global Crisis

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Earlier this year, I ran a series of ten posts which started with a simple question – why are we so badly served with books about the eco...

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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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