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The Scottish Referendum 2014: the Political Process Before and After the “No” Vote’ [PDF]
Janus.net, 2015 On 18 September 2014, Scottish voters narrowly rejected political independence, losing 44.7% to 55.3%. Yet during more than 16 weeks, two opposing campaigns – Yes Scotland versus Better Together – strove to convince Scotland that political independence ...
Sandrina Ferreira Antunes
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Études Écossaises, 2013 Over the years, the Scottish National Party has clearly emphasised the alienness of England’s ethos (epitomised by Margaret Thatcher), thereby building on the idea that the two nations are divided in ways that go beyond their mere historical ...
Didier Revest
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Twenty Years of Devolution in Scotland: the End of a British Party System?
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019 The geographical divides that characterised the outcome of the June 2016 European referendum, with a Remain majority in Scotland and Northern Ireland and a Leave majority in England and in Wales, are symptomatic of the increasingly divergent electoral ...
Fiona Simpkins
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The SNP’s Conception of Scottish Society and Citizenship, 2007-2014
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2016 In a context where the Scottish National Party (SNP) has become the dominant party in Scotland, this article explores one aspect of the party’s ideology, namely its conception of Scottish society and citizenship, based on an analysis of the speeches made
Nathalie Duclos
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The Question of the vis-à-vis: Scotland and Others
E-REA, 2022 The essence of identity is ‘othering’. Who we are not matters as much as who we take ourselves to be. Identities – including those of nation, class, gender and ‘race’ – do not stand alone, but are to be understood in the context of the vis-à-vis.
David McCRONE
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Narrating Devolution: Politics and/as Scottish Fiction
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017 This article explores the tensions between the competing cultural and political narratives of devolution, anchored around James Robertson’s state- of-the-nation novel And the Land Lay Still (2010).
Scott Hames
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The Paradox of Scottish Political Culture
Scottish Affairs, 2014 Scottish political culture adhered to a form of universalism from the Enlightenment until quite recently. In that sense, it denied its own distinctiveness, asserting as part of the very definition of the nation that national distinctiveness ought to be subsumed into liberal principles that are applicable everywhere and at all times.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Sea cucumber mutable collagenous tissue (MCT) is a remarkable collagen‐based material which can rapidly undergo large changes in stiffness through transiently bound effector proteins. Here, we investigate the hierarchical structure and mechanical response of MCT from Cucumaria frondosa across length scales with a wide range of methods, also exploring ...
Nathalie R. H. Singh +7 more
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Holidaying behind the Iron Curtain: The material culture of tourism in Cold War Eastern Europe
Matkailututkimus, 2022 During the Twentieth Century, foreign travel underwent a process of democratisation. Increasingly, through the development of package holidays to ever more far-flung destinations, leisure tourism for the first time allowed ordinary people to experience ...
Carys Wilkins
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.We introduce a new fabrication method that overcomes the current limitation of tubular gap electrospinning. We successfully fabricated a seamless hollow tube with fibers aligned along the longitudinal axis in diameters as small as 300 µm, and then reinforced it using 4‐axis 3D printing.
Seyed Aliakbar Hosseini Toopghara +9 more
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