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”.

Sunday, September 30, 2012

Some contemporary Bulgarian artists

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My Bulgarian artist friends are remarkably patient about my passion for the work of their dead compatriots. And I should feel guilty tha...
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Nature's Bounty - Preparing for winter

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I like this time of year – although, in this part of the world, it does presage grim months ahead - last winter, my old neighbours had di...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Plutocracy at work

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 As someone who has fought 20 successful elections over a 22 year-period - 8 of them public elections; and 12 internal "political gr...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

The greatest art form?

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Yesterday’s post on the Azeri satirical journal of the 1920s reflected my admiration of graphic arts as a whole - let alone those who do ...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

View of another world

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Although I blog frequently about Bulgaria and Romania (between which countries I have been dividing my life in these last 5 years), I sho...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Optimism, realism and scepticism

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First, a welcome to my new readers from the Ukraine – northern neighbours who, my statistics show, have been my most faithful readers o...
Thursday, September 20, 2012

Deep writing

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I often bemoan the quality of writing available in journals – dumbed down by marketing pressures or unreadable from the perversions of ac...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Creative contract management - A question to my readers

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Puzzle - why is a boring post of 22 February 2011 far and away my most popular post   - not only  today (30 hits); this week (124); but  o...
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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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