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, March 13, 2022

Whatever happened to political psychology?

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My last – unusually short - post ended with a question about the curious psychology we seem to be applying to the Russian elite living in it...

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Anti-Corruption – a Great Game no longer

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Other societies and their cultures are strange – so we invent stories to help us understand their behavior . Thus the French are argumentati...

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...

Friday, October 25, 2019

The “Light” that Failed

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Communism was, of course, for that special generation of Western intellectuals from the 1930s-1950s “ the God that failed ” and there is in...

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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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