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, July 9, 2018

Changing the World - or oneself?

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You know you’re losing your mind when – after a week of intensive musings – you still can’t put into clear words an issue which has led to ...
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Is it people who change systems? Or systems which change people?

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Individualists say the former; sociologists and fatalists the latter. And both are right! Change begins with a single step, an inspirin...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Theories of Change - mine and other people's

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For the past few years, people in the “development” field have been encouraged to have a “theory of change ”. The global technocracy had at...
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Saturday, June 30, 2018

Managing Change…why have we lost interest?

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Let me try to summarise the argument of the recent posts about public services reform…… Our view of the State (and what we could expect...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Playing Games with a serious issue?

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Part of me understands the groans (sometimes more than metaphorical!) which meet the term “ public management reform ” whenever it comes up...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

The power of Ideas

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The longest of the 6 quotations which run down the blog’s right-hand column is from Keynes – suggesting that ideas have more influence on ...
Friday, June 22, 2018

The Writer's Craft

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“What is a writer? asked jesting Pilot - and would not stay for an answer ”….OK I cheated, the question was actually “what is truth?” But...
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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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