Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland

ISBN-13: 9780748637362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

Murray Leigh; P. J. Soule; Murray Stewart Leith

Opis

Uses manifesto analysis to measure political nationalism in Scotland. Murray Leith and Daniel P. J. Soule explore the importance of groups, concepts and events such as the SNP and devolution, unionism, the political elite, political and public discourse, inclusion and exclusion, enforced nationalism, and birth, race and citizenship to nationalist feeling in Scotland. The authors set the Modernist view of Scottish nationalism against the work of Gellner, Anderson and Billig to create their own 'mixed method' of evaluating nationalism.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Whose Nationalism is it Anyway?; 2. The Politics of Contemporary Scottish Nationalism; 3. The Changing Sense of Scotland: the Political Employment of National Identity; 4. Nationalism’s Metaphor: the Discourse and Grammar of National Personification; 5. Mass Perceptions of National Identity: Evidence from Survey Data; 6. Narratives of Identity: Locating National Identity in the Public’s Discourse; 7. The Scottish Political Elite View of National Identity; 8. (Re)describing Scottish National Identity; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.