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Author : Murray Stewart Leith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748688623
Addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective.
Author : Hearn Jonathan Hearn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Liberalism
ISBN : 9781474469050
In September of 1997 Scots voted overwhelmingly for the establishment of a modern democratic parliament - their first parliament in almost three hundred years. How did this remarkable constitutional change come about? Jonathan Hearn explores this question by examining how claims for greater political autonomy in Scotland today draw on deeper cultural traditions of political thought and action. Scotland's civic nationalism voices a moral critique of neoliberalism and a communitarian defence of the idea of the welfare state, grounding these in Scottish culture and identity. By placing this movement and its language in their institutional, historical and cultural contexts, this powerful book challenges the conventional distinctions between liberalism and nationalism, and between civic and ethnic forms of nationalism, by arguing for a more nuanced way of thinking about processes of culture, identity and politics. Key Features*An anthropological perspective on Scottish nationalism*An ethnographic, highly readable presentation of the subject*A synthetic treatment of nationalism and liberalism*An in-depth critique of the ethnic/civic dichotomy in nationalism studies
Author : Robin Mann,Steve Fenton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137466747
This timely book provides an extensive account of national identities in three of the constituent nations of the United Kingdom: Wales, Scotland and England. In all three contexts, identity and nationalism have become questions of acute interest in both academic and political commentary. The authors take stock of a wealth of empirical material and explore how attitudes to nation and state can be understood by relating them to changes in contemporary capitalist economies, and the consequences for particular class fractions. The book argues that these changes give rise to a set of resentments among people who perceive themselves to be losing out, concluding that class resentments, depending on historical and political factors relevant to each nation, can take the form of either sub-state nationalism or right wing populism. Nation, Class and Resentment shows that the politics of resentment is especially salient in England, where the promotion of a distinct national identity is problematic. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and politics, will find this study of interest.
Author : Ailsa Henderson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773577688
Ailsa Henderson analyses each nation's linguistic, racial, cultural, economic, and political diversity within a historical and contemporary context. Challenging the assumption that nationalism in Scotland can be characterized as "civic" in contrast to an "ethnic" model in Quebec, Henderson adopts a more complex model of national identity that distinguishes between nationalistic rhetoric, which is invariably civic in form, and public understandings of belonging, which tend to rely on ethnic markers. In Hierarchies of Belonging she demonstrates that nationalist rhetoric and a sense of belonging affect how citizens feel about the state, the nation, and each other.
Author : B. Barnett Cochran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : OCLC:222313915
Author : Gordon Pentland
Publisher : Royal Historical Society
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131682044
The history of the Reform Acts viewed from a Scottish angle, bringing out its implications for relations with England. Pentland's work promises to fill a major hole in Scottish historical writing, and to do so in an exciting and innovative way.' COLIN KIDD Awarded the Senior Hume Brown Prize 2010 The passing of the 'Great Reform Act' of 1832 retains a central place in British history. Historical debate, however, has focussed on whether reform represented the end of the ancien régime or a conservative holding action by political elites. Little critical thinking has been devoted to investigating the passage of the three different Reform Acts as a renegotiation of the relationship between England, Scotland and Ireland. By providing a history of reform in one national context this study addresses several key themes. It delivers a more 'British' history of reform, exploring how the constitutional crisis of 1828-32 was negotiated in different contexts and how, throughout the 1820s and 30s, events in England, Scotland and Ireland impacted on one another. It moves beyond constitutional questions to explore the development of a political culture of reform in shared languages, strategies and personnel across a number of political, religious and social reform campaigns. Finally, it argues that the period was crucial in the renegotiation of what it meant to be British and had a profound impact on national identities in Scotland, where different versions of Britishness and Scottishness were integral to the practice of politics at all levels.
Author : F. Bechhofer,D. McCrone
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230234147
What does it mean to say you're English, Scottish, British? Does it matter much to people? Has devolution and constitutional change made a difference to national identity? Does the future of the UK depend on whether or not people think they are British? Social and political scientists answer these questions vital to the future of the British state.
Author : David McCrone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134529599
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Pauline Schnapper
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527551381
This study is about party political discourses on national identity in Britain under the New Labour governments (1997–2010). Britishness has become a major theme in the British political debate since the end of the second world war, and even more so since the early 1990s, either directly or through discussions of specific issues like immigration, Europe or devolution to Scotland and Wales. Numerous political leaders have publicly worried about the weakness of the common citizenship in the UK and the threat to the survival of Britishness, which has been the only common thread in competing discourses between and within parties. The book examines the four issues which have embodied the different aspects of the debate about national identity in the UK, namely devolution, multiculturalism, European integration and globalisation. It shows that the polarised discourses (especially between the Conservatives and Labour) of the 1990s have given way to a relative rapprochement on these issues, with the notable exception of the European Union, where a real cleavage, in rethoric if not in policy, remains between and sometimes within British political parties.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030394073
This wide-ranging and ground-breaking book, especially relevant given Brexit and renewed Scottish independence campaigning, provides in-depth analysis of ways Scottishness has been performed and modified over the centuries. Alongside theatre, television, comedy, and film, it explores performativity in public events, Anglo-Scottish relations, language and literary practice, the Scottish diaspora and concepts of nation, borders and hybridity. Following discussion of the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath and the real meanings of the 1706/7 Treaty of Union, it examines the differing perceptions of what the ‘United Kingdom’ means to Scots and English. It contrasts the treatment of Shakespeare and Burns as ‘national bards’ and considers the implications of Scottish scholars’ invention of ‘English Literature’. It engages with Scotland’s language politics –rebutting claims of a ‘Gaelic Gestapo’ – and how borders within Scotland interact. It replaces myths about ‘tartan monsters’ with level-headed evidence before discussing in detail representations of Scottishness in domestic and international media.
Author : Hugh MacDiarmid
Publisher : Wright Gordon Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027327744
Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351944632
The identity implications have been overlooked from discussions on devolution, which have tended to focus on constitutional, legal and financial issues. In this volume, contributors from the communities under discussion explore the ways in which devolution is experienced and understood by citizens from the devolved regions of the UK. The additional inclusion of a US perspective allows parallels with American federalism to be drawn out. Informed by a discursive/textual/communication approach to identity, Devolution and Identity offers a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, including both macro- and micro-level analyses of devolution and identity processes. Themes covered include discourse and interaction, national identity, flags and emblems, gender representation, newspaper letters, regional marketing, language ideology, history and culture, artistic practice, minority identities and political ideology. In exploring the impact of the devolution process on both individual and group identities, this book provides a richer understanding of the devolution process itself, as well as a new understanding of the relationship between socio-political structures and identity.
Author : F. Barker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137339317
Examining the evolving responses to immigration, migrant integration and diversity of substate governments in Quebec, Flanders and Brussels, and Scotland, Fiona Barker explores what happens when the 'new' diversity arising from immigration intersects with the 'old' politics of substate nationalism in decentralized, multinational societies.
Author : Johann Wolfgang Unger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027271341
This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from ‘below’ (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis to examine what discursive strategies are used in different texts, and also to investigate salient features of context. This allows a broader discussion of the role of this language in Scotland, and how different ways of constructing a language can percolate through society, appearing in both important, elite texts and discussions among ordinary people. It thus contributes to the body of knowledge about contemporary Scots, but also expands the range of possible applications for critical discourse analysis approaches.
Author : David McCrone,Frank Bechhofer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107100381
Investigates the concept of 'national identity' based on twenty years of empirical evidence.