This book examines the extent to which the work of writers, thinkers, and artists can be said to have directly influenced civil, political and ultimately spatial formations in the Scottish polity over the last 50 years. The research used an analysis of a range of texts from thinkers, philosophers, historians, poets, artists, social and political scientists, politicians and journalists, in an attempt to establish a narrative of Scotland’s political existence as it was argued into being. The political and literary analyses are informed by a full gamut of political theory from Machiavelli and Montaigne to Fanon and Gramsci, and on to Hollywood and the Broons, and a cross referencing juxtaposition of the various authors involved. This leads to an argument that these writers re-ignited political identity and native democracy, and opened the paths for everyday change.

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