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”.

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Neglected Bulgaria

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Bulgaria – by virtue of its size and Cyrillic script - gets a raw deal on the internet. To help enlarge its profile I therefore offer th...
Friday, January 30, 2015

Mindworks

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Strange the way the mind works….the original intention behind yesterday’s post was to give a simple description of the trouble I’m havin...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Travelling Light

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Although some of my earliest political acts (after demonstrations against UK repressions in Central Africa in 1959 and the nuclear submari...
Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Greek tragedy

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At last a Minister of Finance with some integrity…..Yanis Varoufakis – to whose important “ Global Minotaur” book I devoted a blogpost alm...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Strolling

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This is the fourth flat I’ve had in almost 8 years in Sofia – and it’s interesting what different perspectives (and indeed feelings) about...
Thursday, January 15, 2015

Lives worth Living

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I’ve been feeling a bit guilty this morning – if that is the right word to describe my feelings on reading of the death from cancer of two...
Friday, January 9, 2015

Beshkov's country salutes Voltaire's and Daumier's in sadness for the slain journalists of Charlie H

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Today’s somber post is my tribute to the French journalists slaughtered so savagely in Paris this week. As they would surely have wished...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Will this too pass?

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I’ve been busy these past few weeks editing 3 E-books all of which will hit the world in the next few weeks. I start with Ways of Seeing …...
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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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