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Popular Music and Left-Wing Scottishness

open access: yesÉtudes 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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Pressure on Nicola Sturgeon is intense, but there's still room to be positive about second Scottish indyref [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
First paragraph: There have been two dramatic stories in Scottish politics in recent days. One has seen Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's first minister, hold talks with her UK counterpart Theresa May over the ongoing Brexit crisis; and confirming she will ...
Lynch, Peter
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Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
A new musculoskeletal reconstruction and revision of the cranio‐mandibular anatomy of the Devonian arthrodire placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli from a comparative and functional anatomical perspective. Dunkleosteus is a specialized arthrodire with many specializations for feeding on large vertebrates, and many of its features are part of broader ...
Russell K. Engelman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-politics of (Scottish) planning: gatekeepers, gatecheck and gatecrashers? – commentary to Walton

open access: yesFennia: 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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A second species of non‐crocodyliform crocodylomorph from the Late Triassic fissure deposits of southwestern UK: Implications for locomotory ecological diversity in Saltoposuchidae

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic fissures of the Bristol Channel area (southwest England and south Wales) are renowned for their diverse vertebrate faunas. These assemblages have yielded an array of predominantly small‐bodied forms that are crucial to our understanding of the early evolution of several major tetrapod clades.
Ewan H. Bodenham   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

Les élections législatives de 2015 en Écosse : résurgence et reconfiguration des enjeux constitutionnels

open access: yesRevue 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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The Scottish Parliament and Scottish Government: Does Minority Government Make a Difference? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
First paragraph: This chapter explores the difference that minority government makes when compared to coalition government, focusing primarily on the relationship between the Scottish Parliament and Government.
Cairney, Paul
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“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

‘Of course, it didn’t work—that kind of scheme never does’: Scotland, the Nordic Imaginary, and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Thriller

open access: yesNJES: 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
doaj   +1 more source

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