This article argues that postcolonial thought can be used as a tool for thinking about the present in the Scottish Highlands. Taking a case study of collaborative inquiry between local communities, High Life Highland (the body responsible for cultural services in the region) and the University of the Highlands and Islands into the work and legacies of the poet and historian James Macpherson (1736–1796), it examines the way in which the approach and ideas of postcolonialism can be used to better understand the past and critically engage communities in exploring their history. Building upon the work of James Hunter and his pioneering interpretation of Highland history through the work of Frantz Fanon and Edward Said, this article considers how postcolonialism can have intellectual solidarity with histories of the region, especially when we consider the role of the Highlands in processes of colonisation and imperialism. Through this comparative analysis, it demonstrates that using the past as a resource in the present enables communities to change the ways in which their history is presented and to imagine alternative futures.
本文认为，后殖民思想可以作为思考苏格兰高地现状的工具。以当地社区、High Life Highland（负责该地区文化服务的机构）和高地和岛屿大学之间的合作调查为例，对诗人和历史学家James Macpherson（1736-1796）的作品和遗产进行了调查，它考察了如何利用后殖民主义的方法和思想来更好地理解过去，并批判性地让社区参与探索他们的历史。在詹姆斯·亨特的工作以及他通过弗兰茨·法农和爱德华·赛义德的工作对高地历史的开创性解释的基础上，本文考虑了后殖民主义如何与该地区的历史在知识上团结一致，特别是当我们考虑到高地在殖民和帝国主义过程中的作用时。通过这种比较分析，它表明，将过去作为现在的资源，使社区能够改变其历史的呈现方式，并想象替代的未来。
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{"title":"Stephen Bowman, The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945","authors":"T. Mills","doi":"10.3366/nor.2020.0225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2020.0225","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":"11 1","pages":"211-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44875665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the speech in which the phrase ‘land fit for heroes’ was coined, Lloyd George proclaimed ‘(l)et us make victory the motive power to link the old land up in such measure that it will be nearer the sunshine than ever before … it will lift those who have been living in the dark places to a plateau where they will get the rays of the sun’. This speech conflated the issues of the ‘debt of honour’ and the provision of land to those who had served. These ideals had ramifications throughout the British Empire. Here we proffer two Antipodean examples: the national Soldier Settlement Scheme in New Zealand and the Imperial Group Settlement of British migrants in Western Australia and, specifically, the fate and the legacy of a Group of Gaelic speaking Outer Hebrideans who relocated to a site which is now in the outer fringes of metropolitan Perth.
{"title":"Antipodean Aftershocks: Group Settlement of Hebridean and non-Hebridean Britons in Western Australia following World War One","authors":"Roy Jones, Tod Jones","doi":"10.3366/nor.2020.0221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2020.0221","url":null,"abstract":"In the speech in which the phrase ‘land fit for heroes’ was coined, Lloyd George proclaimed ‘(l)et us make victory the motive power to link the old land up in such measure that it will be nearer the sunshine than ever before … it will lift those who have been living in the dark places to a plateau where they will get the rays of the sun’. This speech conflated the issues of the ‘debt of honour’ and the provision of land to those who had served. These ideals had ramifications throughout the British Empire. Here we proffer two Antipodean examples: the national Soldier Settlement Scheme in New Zealand and the Imperial Group Settlement of British migrants in Western Australia and, specifically, the fate and the legacy of a Group of Gaelic speaking Outer Hebrideans who relocated to a site which is now in the outer fringes of metropolitan Perth.","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":"11 1","pages":"188-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41779374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiona J. Mackenzie (ed.), Eilean – The Island Photography of Margaret Fay Shaw","authors":"Naomi Stewart","doi":"10.3366/nor.2020.0211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2020.0211","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":"11 1","pages":"93-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41604838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Norman H. Reid, Alexander III, 1249–1286: First Among Equals","authors":"Simon Egan","doi":"10.3366/nor.2020.0207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2020.0207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":"11 1","pages":"83-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42398372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The impact of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild is here explored through narrators interviewed in the 2010s about their experiences of touring film shows between the late 1940s and early 1970s. ...
{"title":"The Individual, the Community and the Impact of Touring Film: Interviews with Jim Hunter and Others","authors":"Callum G. Brown, Ealasaid Munro","doi":"10.3366/NOR.2020.0202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/NOR.2020.0202","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild is here explored through narrators interviewed in the 2010s about their experiences of touring film shows between the late 1940s and early 1970s. ...","PeriodicalId":40928,"journal":{"name":"Northern Scotland","volume":"11 1","pages":"11-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44428972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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