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 15, 2012

Easter in Sirnea

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A wet Easter Sunday here in Sirnea. My old neighbour, Lucita, brought me yesterday some small meat offerings and a couple of painted eggs; a...

Saturday, December 17, 2011

It's politics, stupid

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My mother lived to the grand old age of 101 – and was still pottering around her small flat in the supported accomodation in which she li...

Friday, December 2, 2011

Rediscovery of political economy

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I have referred several times to the radical rethinking of the economics discipline and also of psychology and regretted that there was lit...

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Contingency

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Faithful readers of the blog will know that I am no friend of the model of management which underpins the European Commission system of proc...

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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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