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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Thursday, October 24, 2019

The God that failed – in central Europe

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In just a couple of weeks it will be the 30 th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall – with the precise date of any single country’s ...

Friday, March 29, 2019

Are Literary Magazines up to the Task?

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Although I’m not a fan of newspapers, I did succumb recently to an offer from Le Monde – even if I miss the smell of the newsprint and i...

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Monday, August 23, 2010

European conversations

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A lot of anxieties have been expressed in books and articles in revent years about what the internet is doing to us eg our minds and relatio...

Saturday, July 3, 2010

scything days and the state of universities

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The day has dawned idyllic - and no further excuses therefore for avoiding the scything which the tall grass around the house demands! Elsew...

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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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