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, March 4, 2021

Rule of Law?

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If the relevance of research in ….political science is understood as how it may improve human well-being and/or political legitimacy, resear...

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...

Sunday, August 23, 2020

Fiddling while Rome is Burning

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Bear with me while I try to get to the heart of my unease with the quality of the non-fiction writing with which we are flooded every day -...

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Whatever happened to good governance and anti-corruption?

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Romania’s Presidency of the Council of the EU has come – and almost gone…It has not been the disaster many people predicted not least the P...

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...

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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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