A propos de l’Écosse, une discussion intéressante et des liens pour mieux comprendre les enjeux du référendum :
Marco Antonsich, Department of Geography at Loughborough (Leicestershire) explains:
Scots will vote whether to live in an independent Scotland or not. My feeling is that when nation & nationalism, rather than being tools of oppression, discrimination, marginalization, etc., are mobilized to empower people (like in the case of the Yes campaigners, fighting for a fairer and more progressive society), we, critical geographers, become indeed... voiceless.
We just don’t know how to deal with a power which shows its good rather than evil face. We are so used to engage with the dark side of power that when this power (in the form of Scottish nationalism) seems to come forward for the good, then we all of a sudden loose our critical tools.
Progressive nationalism may be an oxymoron per se and there is nothing good in the Scottish Yes campaign; but even more so, how to interpret this silence about Scotland among critical geographers?
On the list several “critters” have proposed some iterestiung links such as Gordon Asheer :
Richard Hall ‘s framing and orientation of a response to the referendum question as ‘Yes, BUT’ - ▻http://www.heathwoodpress.com/scottish-referendum-yes-but-richard-gunn
AWTW – Penny Cole
▻http://www.aworldtwin.net/frontline/ScottishIndependenceReferendumYES.html
Thomas Swann’s recent piece – really relevant to thinking things through from any kind of radical/left perspective- ▻http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2014/09/16/why-anarchists-should-vote-yes
Two from afed
▻http://scotlandaf.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/rhetoric-of-disempowerment
▻http://scotlandaf.wordpress.com/2014/08/20/beyond-the-scottish-referendum
Medialens on the media coverage
▻http://medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2014/774-dark-omens-and-horror-shows-scottish-independence-power-and-propagand
A longer version ‘The Scotland Referendum, 2014: Eco-social Justice and a Critical ‘Yes, BUT’
▻http://www.heathwoodpress.com/the-scottish-referendum-2014-eco-social-justice-and-a-critical-yes-b
Noam Chomsky answers questions on Scottish Independence and wider related issues: Myself and Leigh French were given the opportunity to work with Stu Platt on coming up with a series of questions on Independence for one of a series of interviews Stu was doing with Chomsky – one that he wished to dedicate to the topic of Scottish, and wider issues around, independence.
The links to the film of that interview with Chomsky are here –
Vimeo:
▻http://vimeo.com/105110084
YouTube:
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7HpE4k5JLc
On his return Stu also filmed myself and Leigh talking about the questions and Chomsky’s responses to them
The links to the film of that discussion are here –
Vimeo:
▻http://vimeo.com/105110085
Youtube:
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3y_6aG6bxc
Both the above films and one of James Kelman and Alisdair Gray talking about Independence are here on a web page Stu’s just constructed
▻http://www.questionsonindependence.com/Questions_on_Independence/Welcome.html
Gerry Mooney
▻http://www.discoversociety.org/2014/09/02/scotland-state-and-devolutionbut-not-revolutionas-yet
A Thousand Flowers on the possiblity of a new left party in Scotland ▻http://athousandflowers.net/2014/09/05/the-left-is-dead-long-live-the-left
Ken MacLeod on reasons to vote No
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOnk1FzX1jA
Here’s the piece Leigh and I wrote previously – with responses in the comments, and our replies
▻http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2012/08/28/crises-capitalism-and-independence-doctrines
And attached in pamphlet form
Also Mike Small’s piece in response to ours
▻http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2012/08/28/lost
From Kevin Mason:
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/scottish-nationalism-british-westminster-class
And John Mc Kendrick:
▻https://theconversation.com/profiles/john-h-mckendrick-119472/articles
▻http://theconversation.com/profiles/gerry-mooney-123416/articles
A Red Road to Regeneration in Scotland.
▻http://www.allofusfirst.org/resources/library/a-red-road-to-regeneration-in-scotland-2014
Poverty in Scotland 2014
▻http://www.cpag.org.uk/bookshop/policyresearch/poverty-scotland-2014
