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, March 17, 2019

The geography of thinking

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Most of the time we imagine we are unique individuals – very occasionally we have a sense that we are but a grain of sand in an endless d...

Thursday, March 14, 2019

forward the people?

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When Theresa May became PM in July 2016, she made no effort to try to heal the divisions caused by the referendum – let alone to try to c...

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Brexit - What Happens Now?

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Any defeat of the central strategy of a British government would normally lead to a vote of confidence which, if lost, would mean a General...

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

What does Brexit tell us about "ourselves"?

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It is perhaps a bit too soon to expect good analyses about what Brexit means – whether “about” the UK (in the sense of the socio-historical...

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Wednesday, March 6, 2019

The Uncivil War

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Books and paintings have been of constant interest for this blog – even music and poems have made an appearance. But I can’t remember a fil...

Thursday, February 21, 2019

A better economics

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No sooner was my post about The Global Minotaur up than I found another of Yanis Varoufakis’ books freely available on the internet – this ...

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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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