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”.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Alternative medicine, healing - or scam?

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I want to recount a sad experience I had on Sunday here in Bulgaria - near Veliko Trnovo. Since a hill walk in the Kyrgyz mountains in 2006...
Monday, November 14, 2011

What would Google Do?

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In fact, What Would Google Do? proved to be an engrossing and thought-provoking read – although the early stuff about turning customer com...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

An opportunity to catch up

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I will probably be out of access to the internet for the next few days – so please take the opportunity to check back on recent posts – mos...

Leaders of change

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New readers should note that this blog is a great resource for those concerned about the apparent collapse of key elements of our core syste...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Management as religion

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As you may perhaps have noticed, I’ve been experimenting with the title of the blog – in the belated realisation that "Balkan and Carp...
Monday, November 7, 2011

Public Interest - how innocent we were

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One of the really difficult things for people of my generation is to come to terms with is how venal our legislative and legal systems have ...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Comic insights

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"We are where we are" was a great phrase I heard for the first time a some 7 years ago – from a very understanding European Commi...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Fiddling in Cannes (and Sofia) while Europe is burning

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OK - I agree that fiddling while Athens is burning is not a good way to go down in history (the musical references in my last post). But pe...
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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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