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Informationen zum Autor Murray Stewart Leith is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of Scotland. He has published articles on national identity, nationalism and Scottish politics, examining the political and social changes wrought by devolution. Daniel works as a freelance lecturer in Academic Writing through his company Business Grammatology. He was formerly a Lecturer in Academic Writing at the Graduate School at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has also taught at universities in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Norway and across Scotland. Klappentext Uses manifesto analysis to measure political nationalism in ScotlandMurray 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.Key FeaturesPresents a detailed consideration of the language used within the political and nationalist arena in ScotlandCompares a variety of attitudes and opinions held within Scotland from the political elite to the massesIntroduces a new method for measuring political nationalism using manifesto analysisAddresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
