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, April 18, 2021

Just Words - 50 years of scribbling

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I have been in a dangerous place this past week – down Memory Lane. I blame Hugh Johnson’s beautifully-produced “ On Wine – good bits from...

Monday, April 12, 2021

Snippets

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1. Policy Analysis Paul Cairney is one of these rare academics who writes well. He has had a policy analysis blog for 12 years which is ...

Sunday, April 11, 2021

“Surgery of the Mind”

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When communism suddenly imploded in 1989, noone really knew what to do. Earnest tomes had explored how capitalism would tear itself apart an...

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Education under the microscope

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Every month, the Great Transition Initiative invites its readers to explore a specific question relating to climate change and how we migh...

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

How to build State Capacity

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The last few posts have argued that - - few (if any) societies can any longer claim to be democratic - we need, very loudly, to be expos...

Monday, April 5, 2021

Purposive Government

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Who could possibly disagree with the idea of governing with a sense of purpose?? But, as I look back over the past 50 years, I realise th...

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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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