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, September 18, 2023

Social Justice and Capacity Development

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Two issues have dominated my life – for the first 20 years what we in Scotland initially called (in the 70s) “multiple deprivation” but w...

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Amitai Etzioni RIP

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Today I want to celebrate the life of one of the most interesting sociologists of the modern age - Amitai Etzioni may have lived to the gra...

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

ONWARDS AND UPWARDS?

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Faithful readers know of my fascination with CHANGE and my relatively newfound interest in global warming. The two came together yesterday w...

Monday, September 11, 2023

Does the Internet sustain or stifle democracy?

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In one corner we have Jeff Jarvis, the optimist – in the other Efgeni Morozov, more of a pessimist although this article of his disputes th...

Saturday, September 9, 2023

WHAT SORT OF FUTURE ARE WE LEAVING BEHIND?

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Climatologists may overwhelmingly (the exact figure is some 97%) be convinced that global warming is a real and immediate threat - but the ...

Thursday, September 7, 2023

ON BIAS

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There is a lot of talk in the UK of bias in reporting – whether it's the BBC or simple journalism. The reality is that it's very dif...

Sunday, September 3, 2023

CAN LABOUR WIN?

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A recent post identified a widespread despondency indeed cynicism about contemporary British politics. Some forty years ago, there was a m...

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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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