Renegotiating Scottish Nationalism after the 2014 Independence Referendum
The discourse of pro-independence supporters and Unionists during the pre-referendum campaign in Scotland has revealed subtle, though important, differences in their visions of Scottish and British identities. The analysis of leading political figures’ speeches, televised debates, interviews but als...
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| I publikationen: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises, |
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| Materialtyp: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Études écossaises
2016
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | The discourse of pro-independence supporters and Unionists during the pre-referendum campaign in Scotland has revealed subtle, though important, differences in their visions of Scottish and British identities. The analysis of leading political figures’ speeches, televised debates, interviews but also campaign ads or web infographics can be used to show the specificities of campaigners’ patriotic and nationalistic rhetoric and to see to what extent it complied with or differed from the traditional civic vision of Scottish national identity put forward by political elites. Such analysis can also bring to light the limits of nationalism as a tool for the promotion of a political agenda. This article therefore aims to offer a different approach of Scottish and British identities so as to highlight the diversity and complexity of identity issues in contemporary Scotland and Britain. |
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