Scotland 2014 and Beyond - Coming of Age and Loss of Innocence?

This book examines Scotland from a great variety of international and disciplinary perspectives, offering viewpoints from ordinary citizens as well as experts in culture, history, literature, sociology, politics, the law, and the media. The texts investigate the mental processes, dispositions, and activities that have been involved in past and present discussions about Scottish independence, freedom, equality, justice, and the creation of a fair society. Such discussions have been shaped by specific values, ideologies, class or personal interests and objectives as well as by specific ways of telling their stories. These are analysed together with the European, global, and democratic dimensions of Scotland, in order to find answers to the question how coming of age might be achieved today.

Auteur

Klaus Peter Müller is Chair of English at Mainz University, focusing on British and media studies, translation studies, especially literary and media translation, investigating the links between these fields, narration, our understanding of reality and history, and the cognitive sciences.

Contenu

Contents: Klaus Peter Müller: The Articles in this Book: Topics, Perspectives, Disciplines - Klaus Peter Müller: Scotland 2014 and Beyond - Key Contexts of Innocence and Maturity: Scotland, the UK, the EU, the Global & Digital Worlds - Dauvit Broun: Scotland as Part of the UK: International Law and Medieval History - Catriona Macdonald: The «Scotch Accent of Mind»: Historicising the Referendum - Murray Pittock :The British People: Description or Denial? - Neil Blain: «Project Fear» in a Longitudinal Context - David Hutchison: The Media and the Referendum: Uncharted Waters, Perilous Seas? - Peter Jones: Existential and Utilitarian Nationalism in Scotland - David Martin-Jones: Scotland, Global Gateway Nation: Cinematic Imaginings of Contemporary Scotland - Miriam Schröder: Modern Narratives: Scottish Self-Perceptions at the Time of Devolution - William Elliot Bulmer: The Emergent Scottish Constitutional Tradition: Scottish, Nordic and Global Influences - Aileen McHarg: The Independence Referendum, the Contested Constitution, and the Authorship of Constitutional Change - Valentina Bold: «What Scotland had, and now has not»: James Hogg's The Brownie of Bodsbeck - Regional and National Identities in the Nineteenth Century - Ian Campbell: Double Vision - Gerard Carruthers: The Failure of Historicism in Scottish Literary Studies: A Case Study Involving the Burns Movement and the Chair of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow - Ian Duncan: The Discovery of Scotland: Walter Scott and World Literature in the Age of Union - Margery Palmer McCulloch: Listening to the Writers Talk: Coming of Age in Scotland 1922-2012 - Kirsten Sandrock: Postcolonial Perspectives on the Scottish Independence Debate - Eberhard Bort: Beyond the Referendum: A New Deal for Local Democracy in Scotland? - Bashabi Fraser: Reflections on Nation and Narration from the Perspective of a «New Scot» in Scotland - Deirdre Forsyth: Why I am Voting Yes - Gill Scott/Gerry Mooney: Scotland - New Directions in Welfare? - Roland Sturm: Devolution Max, Asymmetrical Federalism and the English Question - Scotland as Catalyst for Constitutional Change in Britain.