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”.

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

A Challenge to Conventional Finance

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The curious title which the blog has had for the past year or so is a tribute to those who have managed to escape a monoculture (or “tunnel...

Monday, June 22, 2020

Links I liked

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Food Supply and tourism have been two of the many flows (of goods and people) badly hit by Covid19. And who better than Michael Pollan a...

Saturday, June 20, 2020

An Update of “Journals worth reading”

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As the number of newspaper titles shrinks, the number of weekly, monthly and even quarterly journals seems to increase. It’s 3 years since ...

Thursday, June 18, 2020

Learning to Learn

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For 17 years I was allowed to call myself a “lecturer” which I could have included in my Sceptic’s Glossary as “someone who spouts words”...

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

My Day

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A couple of days ago I enrolled for the “Progressive Governance Digital Summit 2020” and watched the first few hours of the event which i...

Monday, June 15, 2020

Links I liked

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I had no sooner started a weekly ”Links I Liked” feature than I lost my connection to the blog. Until then I had dumped any excerpts of ...

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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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