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, January 30, 2022

Leaders we Deserve

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One of the books I’ve been glancing at is the very recent Corruptible – who gets power and how it changes us ; Brian Klaas (2021) which deal...

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Friday, January 28, 2022

The Language of Anti-corruption

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One of the most effective ways for powerful people to stop us thinking about an important issue is to ensure that the issue is made confusin...

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Did Transition have to be so corrupt?

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“ When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor les...

Friday, January 21, 2022

What is Change?

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We use the concept of “change” all the time but there seems to be surprisingly little written about it as an all-embracing concept . The lit...

Monday, January 17, 2022

Penis Envy and the social sciences

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This blog is written by someone who calls himself a “social scientist”, hinting at a well-known condition of “penis envy” vis-à-vis the trad...

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Mind Matters

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Although the quotation which heads the list of quotes (you can find by scrolling down the top right column of the blog) refers to the import...

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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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