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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Monday, April 15, 2019

The polite but awkward squad?

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All countries are obviously different – but this has not stopped academics from amusing themselves with long, intense and generally inc...

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Bucharest Flames

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Romanian politicians don’t do resignations. When, a few years back, one of their previous Ministers who had migrated to Brussels as a Eur...

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Cultural differences

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I have quite few websites about the EU on my favourites bar – but don’t often access them since they are either too technical or too predic...

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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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