Independence of the Scottish mind
Subtitle: elite narratives, public spaces and the making of a modern nation
By: Gerry Hassan, University of the West of Scotland, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781137414137
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Elite (Social sciences); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
Description: "This study explores modern Scotland AND examines how Scottish politics, culture and identities have interacted within the national and international contexts in the last thirty years. It considers which voices and opinions have proven influential and defining, and charts the boundaries of public conversation to and beyond the independence referendum. This book locates contemporary debates on Scottish self-government in an analysis of the long term historic development of Scottish autonomy and difference. Based on extensive interviews with leading members of the Scottish political commentariat, it applies the idea of 'elite narratives' to articulate how ideas and debate can slowly shift and frame public opinion. It draws on ideas of the construction of the near-past, folklore, collective memories, power, voice and space, to bring together an original contribution to politics, media and the dynamics of public debate"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-258).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: The Scottish Debate and the Crises of Britain; title: PART I: THE LONG REVOLUTION; title: 1. Investigating Scotland's Public Life, Sphere and Voices; title: 2. Understanding Scotland: Nationhood and the Claim of Sovereignties; title: 3. Power: Political and Media Dimensions; title: 4. Scotland's Public Spaces and the Myth of 'Civic Scotland'; title: 5. The Scottish Media: Continuity, Change, Crisis; title: PART II: STORIES OF MODERN SCOTLAND; title: 6. The Scottish Political Commentariat; title: 7. Restless Nation: Thatcherism's as Scotland's 'Other'; title: 8. The Scottish Parliament, Devolution and a New Political Landscape; title: 9. The Boundaries and Bandwidths of Public Scotland; title: 10. A Very Different Assembly? Gender, Ethnicity, Class and National Identity; title: 11. Anatomy of Modern Scotland: Spaces and Places; title: 12. Political and Cultural Elite Battles and the 'Children of the Echo'; title: 13. Post-Nationalist Scotland, Post-Nationalist UK?; title: 14. State of Independence.