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, November 9, 2020

Snippets

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1. Public Relations (and marketing) is such a central part of our lives that it is difficult to imagine that it had a beginning and that E...

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Celebrating the Open Free Spirit

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In the eleven years of blogging, I occasionally muse about the nature of blogging. When I’m in a (self-) critical mood I refer to it as an e...

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Lifting the lid on Hot Money - and those who make it possible

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The UK’s imperial tradition gave its writers a strong streak of putting down the rest of the world – but its tradition of eccentricity encou...

Monday, November 2, 2020

Links I Liked – hats off to black and white tradition of photography; to Words; to Localism; and to another weekly roundup worth reading

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1. As a fan of Realist painting, I’ve always been drawn to black and white photography – and I was sorry I didn’t know more about Chris Kil...

Saturday, October 31, 2020

The Blog which keeps on giving…

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Most of the mail I receive is from impersonal feeds – mainly from journals. A letter from friend or family makes the day worthy of celebra...

Friday, October 30, 2020

Between the Lines - IV

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Drafting the brief intros to the series of this year’s posts I’ve been rerunning this week has been a useful exercise – at least for me. It’...

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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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