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”.

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Sunday, August 16, 2020

The Pandemic as a Warning Shot

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The last post ended with a suggestion that how we behave in a crisis is a mark of our character and that all of us should feel under a mora...

Saturday, August 15, 2020

Who's having a good Covid19 War?

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Covid19 certainly "separates the wheat from the chaff" - it didn't take long, for example, for us to identify the "good...

Thursday, August 13, 2020

We need to talk about ....the state

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Governments have long been an easy target for public anger - whether defined as the particular collection of personalities who form a parti...

Saturday, March 28, 2020

Critical Masses, Emperors and freebies

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The last post ended with a question - picked up by my fellow-blogger Boffy whose reply (posted as a comment on my blog) deserves a spotlig...

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

On Perspective

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1. The chart shows the trajectory of reported COVID19 cases - with the number of cases on one axis and the time taken to reach that poin...

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Monday, March 23, 2020

Links which appealed in Ploiesti

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Another Monday! Doesn’t time go fast when you are enjoying yourself! I start not so much with a link as a complaint…. 1. I was appall...

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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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