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, August 17, 2021

The Importance of Critical Reading

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Five weeks ago, I shared a list of books which I felt would help me as I tried to draft a conclusion to the book I’ve been working on for t...

Saturday, August 14, 2021

The Church of Economism

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Mine was the modernist generation brought up on the Huxleys, HG Wells, GB Shaw and Bertrand Russell. Keynes and the Atom Bomb were probab...

Wednesday, August 11, 2021

What contemporary detective television tells us about the UK

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I haven’t posted for almost 2 weeks – my readership has therefore plummeted from some 300 a day to about 50…..confirming my feeling that blo...

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Change the World?

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I haven’t forgotten my intention to address Henry Mintzberg’s point that the Reformation offers an example to give us hope in these difficu...

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Fighting Fatalism

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Hayek was bad enough – with his belief that markets would solve any problem. But the complexity theorists seem to have driven the last nail ...

Sunday, July 25, 2021

When it all gets too much

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Every generation goes through a cycle – marvelling excitedly in youth at the speed with which the world is changing; experiencing the pace ...

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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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