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, June 9, 2014

A special salad

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At last summer is here in the mountains – for the first time at the end of last week I was able to leave the back and front doors of the u...

Saturday, June 7, 2014

A taster

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I promised a few days ago to extract some tantalising goodies from the 130 pages and 400 hyperlinks which make up my little guide to Rom...

Friday, June 6, 2014

On not getting under the skin

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I find it odd that so few writers or academics seem to have asked the question which has been bothering me this last year – how does one g...

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Maps as metaphors

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Almost a decade ago I was asked, amongst other things, to design a Road Map for the development of municipalities in Kyrgyzstan. It was ...

Desperado

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I have been reading “The Long Shadows” (1997) which is almost a book within several books as it alternates between three if not four narra...

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Good questions.

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Good questions get brownie points. from me....I always appreciate good questions.....they are a spur to creative thinking....they take u...

Roadmaps

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These weeks I should have been working on my “Scottish home thoughts from abroad” – clearing my mind, with the help of the dozen or so ...

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

A window to Romania's past

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I’m at the fine-tuning stage of the guide – giving me the freedom to surf some of the links I had added to the text which lead to others...

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nomadron: 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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