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”.

Monday, November 28, 2011

A Citizen's Bible?

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I have to confess to some ennui – like my gout, an affliction of the privileged! Perhaps the absence of the edge the white wine brought to m...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Social Science as Sorcery

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This is a period of my life when I try to sort out the sense and the nonsense from what I have absorbed from the social science literatur...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Living without the luxuries

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Monday early saw me at the Military hospital again – this time to a floor so munificent it must have been designed for the Generals and Adm...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

mainline medical experience

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So many books and paintings accumulated in 7 months in Sofia - that moving flats (back to the warmer one I had 3 years ago) proved more str...
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...
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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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