Titlebook: Independence of the Scottish Mind; Elite Narratives, Pu Gerry Hassan Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limit

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Scotland’s Public Spaces and the Myth of ‘Civic Scotland’g, it examines drawing from Jurgen Habermas the idea of ‘the public sphere’, the context of Scotland’s public realm in relation to the state at the Scottish and British level, and it then explores definitions of ‘civil society’ and the frequently enunciated idea of ‘civic Scotland’.

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Restless Nation: Thatcherism as Scotland’s ‘Other’ impact of that change, overviewing its record in relation to Scotland and how this was perceived at the time and post-Thatcher. It will also define and explore the notion of ‘elite narratives’ and assess their relationship and interaction with popular perceptions and narratives.

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The Scottish Parliament, Devolution and a New Political Landscapef that things could be different and better than Westminster (Hassan, 1998; Taylor, 1999). Parliament almost immediately became the main vocal point of public life in Scotland in relation to politics, political discussion and media. This sudden shift had a number of consequences. For one, the Parlia

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The Boundaries and Bandwidths of Public Scotlandluding some of the commentariat in this study, have traditionally celebrated Scotland’s culture as communitarian, inclusive and egalitarian, stressing positive identity and maximising the sense of difference with our English neighbours. The Scottish Independence Convention as one very visible exampl

Dislocation

A Very Different Assembly? Gender, Ethnicity, Class and National Identityicit is that across numerous factors such as class and ethnicity, Scotland is less hidebound than England. McCrone has written that ‘the myth of egalitarianism’ is used to differentiate Scottish and English societies which have in many respects, socio-economically, become more similar, not more diff

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Anatomy of Modern Scotland: Spaces and Placescottish accounts validate this perspective, including some influential voices with what appears to be limited self-reflection or definition (see for example McIlvanney, 1992b). Labour politicians and sympathetic opinions cite the term ‘social justice’, believing that it informs their values and acti

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Political and Cultural Elite Battles and the ‘Children of the Echo’sted assumptions inadequately examined or scrutinised. Scotland is inarguably a ‘nation’ and the prospect of this being contested or terminated is not plausible in any sense in any near future. Yet, manifestations of ‘nationhood’ have many permutations and interpretations globally and historically;

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Post-Nationalist Scotland, Post-Nationalist UK? nationalism and post-nationalism and, in its final part, addresses issues around power and agency. It will also consider how Scottish political debate has referenced and understood its nearest neighbouring countries outside the UK, and it assesses the lessons and similarities with Scotland.

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