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, March 2, 2022

The Ukraine War

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Romanian television is full of images of refugees crossing from Ukraine into Romania from its northern border – some of them Romanian-spea...

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Friday, May 14, 2021

Those Clever Romans – the tactical Playbook of the Corporate Elites

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That’s half a dozen posts I’ve done in a row on the apparent increased divisiveness in our societies – without any real attempt at either ex...

Saturday, September 14, 2019

Brexit – and its different levels of “explanation”

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There have been lots of theories about “How Brexit happened” with the “explanations” generally turning out (at least in the newspapers an...

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Friday, April 12, 2019

Narratives of Encroachment

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Like most people, these days, my attention tends to wander…my eye will soon catch something else. It’s not often that an article is able ...

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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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