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Popular Music and Left-Wing Scottishness

Études Écossaises, 2016
Recent developments in Scottish politics, such as the Scottish National Party’s resounding victory in the 2015 general election, would seem to attest to the existence of a strong sense of national identity underpinned by progressive values.
Jeremy Tranmer
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Post-politics of (Scottish) planning: gatekeepers, gatecheck and gatecrashers? – commentary to Walton

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2018
Reflecting upon William Walton’s work in this issue of Fennia, this commentary elaborates on the ideas of post-politics evoked by Walton’s careful examination of Scottish planning. Applying viewpoints of depoliticization and post-politics may not provide
Vesa Kanninen
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Les élections législatives de 2015 en Écosse : résurgence et reconfiguration des enjeux constitutionnels

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
Constitutional matters were supposed to have been settled in Scotland with the 2014 independence referendum. Yet they re-emerged in the run-up to the 2015 General Election, through traditional issues (the powers of the Scottish Parliament, the prospect ...
Edwige Camp-Pietrain
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Bottom-up versus Top-down Campaigning at the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The Scottish independence referendum of 2014 saw one of the longest political campaigns in modern UK politics. The referendum saw the formation of a hybrid Yes campaign that combined modern campaigning techniques with a large, activist grassroots that ...
Peter Lynch
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‘Of course, it didn’t work—that kind of scheme never does’: Scotland, the Nordic Imaginary, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Thriller

NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2020
In the course of the last two decades, nationalist politics in Scotland have pivoted away from positing a civic identity founded on traditionally Celtic motifs—clans, tartan, the Gaelic language—in order to instead imagine an independent country closely
Joe Kennedy
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A Parliament of Novels: the Politics of Scottish Fiction 1979-1999

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2006
The resurgence of Scottish literature at the end of the twentieth century took place in a troubled period of Scotland’s political and economic history, following 1979’s failed devolution referendum.
David Leishman
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The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation, by Scott Hames

Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2020
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Paula Argüeso San Martin
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Deregulated free-for-all planning, new settlements and the spectre of abandoned building sites in Scotland’s crisis-hit oil economy

Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2018
The creation of new settlements as a response to the accommodation of household growth was regarded by the Scottish Government from the 1980s to around 2008 as an option of the last resort.
William Walton
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COVID-19 and Scottish Independence: The Instrumentalisation of the Pandemic in the Constitutional Debate

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
The Covid-19 pandemic unfolded in the UK in a specific context where, in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, much of the political scene had been dominated by constitutional politics.
Nelly Gérard
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The 2011 Elections in Wales and the Role Played by Civil Society

Revue LISA, 2014
The constitutional innovations that devolution brought are turning out to be more innovative in Wales than might have been thought. The setting up of the Welsh Assembly was a historic event in that Wales had never in its history had a nationwide body ...
Moya Jones
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