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”.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

big was not bad

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This is now what the area looks like - about one metre of snow at my level - more at higher reaches. But Revenons aux moutons! Let's pic...

seminal reading and experiences

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Honore Daumier Smuggler Watch him when he opens his bulging words – justice Fraternity, freedom, internationalism, peace, Peace, peac...
Friday, October 16, 2009

fathers

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my father - a painting commissioned from Yuliana Sotirova (who worked only from a black and white photo!) We are all shaped by...

making bureaucracy transparent and accountable

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In all the complex discussions about accountability of public systems we sometimes miss the simple examples - which require individual ...

writing to make sense of things

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The sublime Mario Zhekov (1898-1955) - only Nicolas Tanev and Z Boyadjiev surpass him in the Bulgarian pantheon. But he is my favourite - an...

Brecht and Candide

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an uzbek painting One of my favourite poems has been Brecht’s “In Praise of doubt” Deafened by commends, examined For his fitness to fight ...

O lucky man!

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An Uzbek graphic "O Lucky man!" was a left-wing British film of the 1970s with a great theme song by Alan Price. I consider m...
Wednesday, October 14, 2009

snow

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Less than 5 months after the last heavy snow, it's back! It's not quite as thick as shown here but this gives an idea of what it wil...
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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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