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”.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

making good use of one's time here

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I promised on 10 March to draft a short paper which identified the various texts which seem to me relevant to the issue of social change or...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

triple Boyadjievs

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Three Boyadjievs (and a Bunadjiev) will probably go into my book. The first the most famous - an entire house is devoted to his work in the...

social innovation and social enterprise

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The price of potatoes has apparently almost doubled here – so there is a particular poignancy to the efforts of my 80 year-old neighbours w...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The mask of reform

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A rereading of yesterday’s questions for a Skype discussion today was quite salutary – particularly the first one – “ What were the forces ...

Cartoon time!

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Coincidentally, three of Bulgaria’s cartoonists have a family name starting with B - Bozhenov, Alexander 1878-1968; Behar, Marko 1914-73; a...
Monday, March 28, 2011

The How and the What of Change

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I need to return to the paper for the Varna Conference – a final version of which has to be posted on the NISPAcee site in a couple of weeks...

A-B Bulgarian painters

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I realise that those who alight on this blog may not share my passion for painting – let alone Bulgarian works. I thought of relegating the...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

Book on Bulgarian painters

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When I was in Sofia in January 2011 I realised that there was a need for a booklet in English on modern Bulgarian painting. Nothing exists...
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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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