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, July 17, 2017

When will it ever change???

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Another long post whose basic argument I can perhaps best summarise thus – - People were overly optimistic in 1990/91 when they talked o...

Thursday, April 20, 2017

It's All About...Values

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For almost 30 years I have been living in central european countries (actually seven of the years were in central Asia) and working on p...

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...

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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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