‘Yes Scotland’: More than a Party Political Campaign, a National Movement Fostering a New Active Citizenship
In its coverage of the ‘Yes Scotland’ campaign the media focused very much on the Scottish National Party’s proposals for an independent Scotland, thereby presenting the ‘Yes’ campaign as being led by the Scottish Government, rather than discuss independence as one constitutional option among others...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Revue française de civilisation britannique
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | In its coverage of the ‘Yes Scotland’ campaign the media focused very much on the Scottish National Party’s proposals for an independent Scotland, thereby presenting the ‘Yes’ campaign as being led by the Scottish Government, rather than discuss independence as one constitutional option among others for the future of Scotland. Yet, in spite of the claims made by the leaders of the ‘Better Together’ campaign that the 55.3% of ‘No’ votes in the referendum settled the question of Scotland’s independence once and for all, the independence movement has not lost momentum. This article seeks to demonstrate that although ‘Yes Scotland’ unsurprisingly bore the mark of the SNP, the campaign on the ground, which alongside party activists involved extra-parliamentary groups whose ambition was to engage people in a wider debate on what kind of society they wanted Scotland to be, can be seen as having laid the foundations for a national movement for independence. |
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