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Young SNP members: socio-nationalism, identity and politics

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Scotland is an interesting case study when it comes to politics, nationalism and identity. The separatist movement led by the Scottish National Party (SNP) raises a wide range of questions with regard to Scottish and British politics as well as people's ...
Claire Breniaux
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Making politics educational: the experience of the Scottish referendum on independence

open access: yesHistoria Social y de la Educación, 2015
In 2014 the issue of constitutional change in the UK brought about by an agreement between the UK and Scottish Government, for a referendum on Scottish independence, created the motivation for widespread political engagement with the formal political ...
Jim Crowther
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Naomi Mitchison’s we have been warned (1935) in post-referendum Scotland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Mitchison weaves a realist political novel about the lives of two upper-middle class women in 1930s Britain with abstract forays into Scottish folklore as the kelpies follow the sisters, haunting their modern activities. Sometimes the dialogue is stilted,
Mcfarlane, Anna
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Defining ethnicity in a cultural and socio-legal context : the case of Scottish gypsy-travellers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Scottish Gypsy/Travellers are 'to be regarded' as an ethnic group in Scotland by both the Scottish Parliament and Scottish Executive until a test case in a court of law clarifies matters.
Clark, Colin
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Surface Energy Modulated Self‐Assembly of Percolative Gallium Nanodroplet Films for Stretchable Electronics

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Surface‐energy guided self‐assembly of liquid metals enables the transformation of liquid metal micro/nanodroplets into continuous perocolative films on elastomeric substrates. By tailoring interfacial energetics and wetting behavior, uniform, conductive, and stretchable films are achieved, offering scalable pathways for high‐performance soft ...
Alwar Samy Ramasamy   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconstructing the Future: Contemporary Scottish Literature and the Nation

open access: yesÉtudes Écossaises, 2018
This article examines the recent development in Scottish literature and criticism, away from the critical commonplace that describes how Scottish culture has, in the decades since the 1979 referendum, been aligned with Scottish nationalism. Starting from
Marie-Odile Pittin-Hédon
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Singing in a new world: Scotland - hopeless schizophrenic or cosmopolitan post nation? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Rival views of Scotland at the beginning of the twenty-first century see the nation as either, hopelessly schizophrenic, mired in its own bedevilled tartanry and forever salvaging the present through historic erasure or as a cosmopolitan postnation at ...
Farrell, M.
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Rational choice meets the new politics: choosing the Scottish Parliament’s electoral system [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Although there has been extensive research about electoral system choice at the national level, we know relatively little about the dynamics of deciding the rules of the game for sub-state institutions.
Alan Convery   +22 more
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Printed Flexible WO3‐Based Supercapacitors for Powering Low‐Powered Electronics in Wearable Devices and Energy Autonomous Temperature Monitoring

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
This study represents one of the systematic demonstrations of a screen‐printed, flexible WO3‐based supercapacitor, exhibiting excellent charge‐storage performance for powering wearable electronics. The device shows a specific capacitance of 3.44 F g−1 and an energy density of 0.302 Wh kg−1 at 0.05 mA, which enable to operate multiple wearable ...
Jithin Kanathedath   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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