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, April 16, 2017

A Hundred Years of Solitude....alienation.... and "transition"?

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I’ve been in sensitive territory with my last three posts which covered the fields of “formal” and “informal” structures - and of the va...

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Are Nations really masters of their fates?

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I’ve just been doing an interview for a website about my experience of Romania. I found myself giving this rather severe response to one o...

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Where the buck stops

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In the 1970s and 80s, those of us struggling to reform the state (both national and local) talked about “generating understanding and commit...

Monday, June 13, 2011

Why Romania politics is so rotten - path dependency

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In our relentless celebration of the "new", we undervalue what has been written even a few years ago. Somehow we assume that it is...

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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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