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, June 15, 2022

Getting to Denmark

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I’ve always been a sucker for books which promised to reveal the essence or soul of a nation or Region and “ The Nordic Secret ” (2017) - wh...

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, June 27, 2019

Reading Week - part III

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The second full category of books in my library are those which I have read but which need to be read and reread for their full value to...

Friday, November 9, 2018

Identity Politics

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How has it come to pass that the world is divided these days on the issue of identity and political correctness?? Is it the insidious resu...

Thursday, April 20, 2017

It's All About...Values

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For almost 30 years I have been living in central european countries (actually seven of the years were in central Asia) and working on p...

Monday, September 12, 2011

Do we need the state?

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On Friday, the clouds were mottled and swirling in a string wind – autumn, it seemed, had closed down summer. But the last 2 days have be...

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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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