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 15, 2023

Performance v Results as a measure of strategic work

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When an organisation attempts a strategy, you never know whether its separate sections are going to manage to work together. And it’s even m...

Saturday, January 14, 2023

A great winter recipe

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I’ve lived and worked in quite a few countries in my time – in both Central Europe and Central Asia. In culinary terms, Cehia was perhaps th...

The ever-growing irrelevance of Pluralism

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A few years after I started to work (in institutional development) in central E urope , I got the chance of a short sabbatical at the Urban ...

Friday, January 13, 2023

Google erases common memories - and devalues collective effort

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Why do the last 3 posts hark on about events from 50 years ago – let alone apparently going back over material I covered last year? Mainly b...

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Turning a Crisis into an Opportunity

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The early 1970s saw an intense debate about the very future of Glasgow – the rehousing of people from the city’s slums in the 1960s to New T...

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!”

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I may have told the story of Strathclyde’s Social Strategy before – but being given the opportunity to reflect in Zoom conversations al...

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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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