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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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

What’s Transitional Justice – when it’s at home?

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I continue to think about the increasing divisiveness in our societies – and the apparently minimal efforts being made to repair the divisi...

Friday, September 18, 2020

Crowds and Power in Sofia and Bucharest - III

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How, 30 years on, is post-communism doing? I’ve been living in Bulgaria and Romania since 2007 – for a decade I enjoyed crossing the Dan...

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Plus Ca Change,,,,plus c’est la meme chose???

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European countries have experienced massive changes since the end of the war – and yet, I keep on wondering, .”to what extent do national c...

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Why we need to be suspicious of the idea of “political culture”

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We like to think that we are “ masters of our fate ” and it irks us when foreigners, for example, make us realise that our behaviour is oft...

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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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