2014 independence referendum

George Monbiot: Independent Scotland could show a way out of climate crisis

Vicky Fairley — Sat, 30 Oct 2021 10:04:33 +0000

George Monbiot: Independent Scotland could show a way out of climate crisis

Primary Author or Creator

Spowart, Nan

Vicky Fairley Sat, 10/30/2021 - 11:04

Publisher

The National

Date Published

Sun, 10/17/2021 - 12:00

Category

Climate change

Campaigning

Independence

Type of Resource

newspaper article

Fast Facts

George Monbiot interview highlights the need for mass mobilisation to combat climate change. The 2014 Scottish Independence movement provides a good example of how to create a mass movement in the 21st century.

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Leading environmental campaigner George Monbiot criticises the lamentable ineffectiveness of the current climate change movement, stating that the current mass movement needs to grow substantially in order to effect the change required. He maintains that governments and big business will not act unless we make it impossible for them to maintain the status quo and to do that we need to ''mobilise, mobilise, mobilise.'' He cites the Scottish Independence campaign of 2014 as an example of effective mobilisation and posits that Scotland could lead the way in combatting the climate crisis.

Resource Address (URL)

https://www.thenational.scot/news/19652546.george-monbiot-independent-scotland-…

Keywords

Climate change

Environment

2014 independence referendum

Language English

Getting ahead of the curve What next for Scotland and the Union?

Stephen Richard — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 09:01:15 +0000

Getting ahead of the curve What next for Scotland and the Union?

Primary Author or Creator

ALUN EVANS

Stephen Richard Wed, 10/06/2021 - 10:01

Additional Author(s) / Creators

British Academy

Date Published

Sun, 08/16/2015 - 12:00

Category

Independence

Type of Resource

Lecture

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

6pp

Fast Facts

In this article Alun Evans (formerly Scottish Office making the case for the Union) focuses on the hurly-burly of the 2014 referendum campaign, and his own suggestions for securing a long-term future for the Union. His solutions - full tax devolution, spending, domestic policy, and energy policy. Agreement on shared responsibilities, continuation of the monarchy, monetary policy set by UK, defence and foreign policy set by UK. [The expanded devolution that was promised but neve delivered]

Resource Address (URL)

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/846/BAR27-03-Evans_0.pdf

Keywords

2014 independence referendum

Devoution

Language English

Scotland, Secession, and the European Union

Stephen Richard — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:37:33 +0000

Scotland, Secession, and the European Union

Primary Author or Creator

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott

Stephen Richard Sun, 09/26/2021 - 07:37

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Queen Mary School of Law

Date Published

Wed, 01/16/2019 - 12:00

Category

Independence

Type of Resource

Academic Paper

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

22pp

Fast Facts

This paper discusses Scotland’s relationship with the EU in the context of two different secession events. The first concerns the question of an independent Scotland’s EU membership in the event of Scotland’s secession from the UK. The second discusses the position of Scotland in the context of a UK in-out referendum on EU membership. This chapter concludes that in neither case should Scotland be forced to leave the EU against its will.

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Queen Mary School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 301/2019

Resource Address (URL)

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3316715

Keywords

European Union

2014 independence referendum

secession

Brexit

Language English

Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate

Stephen Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:10:02 +0000

Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate

Primary Author or Creator

Jamie Mahoney

Stephen Richard Fri, 09/24/2021 - 20:10

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Tom Feltwell, Obinna Ajuruchi, Shaun Lawson

Date Published

Tue, 05/17/2016 - 12:00

Category

Media

Type of Resource

Academic Paper

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

13pp

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Through a qualitative analysis of images shared on the platform Instagram, we demonstrate that the Scottish electorate did indeed used image-sharing for political self-expression -- posting a variety of visual content, representative of a diversity of political opinion. We conclude that users utilised Instagram as a platform to craft and present their "political selves".

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This paper presents an investigation of how the Scottish electorate utilised photo-sharing on social media as a means of participation in the democratic process and for political self-expression in the periods immediately prior to two recent major democratic votes: the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, and the 2015 UK general election. We extend previous HCI literature on the growing use of social media in a political context and contribute specifically on understanding the emergent use of visual media by citizens when engaging with political issues and democratic process. Through a qualitative analysis of images shared on the platform Instagram, we demonstrate that the Scottish electorate did indeed used image-sharing for political self-expression -- posting a variety of visual content, representative of a diversity of political opinion. We conclude that users utilised Instagram as a platform to craft and present their "political selves". We raise questions for future research around power and inequality on such platforms as well as their capability of providing a persistent forum for debate.

CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Constructing the Visual Online Political Self: An Analysis of Instagram Use by the Scottish Electorate. Pages 3339–3351

A paywall is in operation

Resource Address (URL)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2858036.2858160

Keywords

Instagram

2014 independence referendum

Social media

Language English

Whose voices are heard in the news? A study of sources in television coverage of the Scottish independence referendum

Stephen Richard — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:02:46 +0000

Whose voices are heard in the news? A study of sources in television coverage of the Scottish independence referendum

Primary Author or Creator

Marina Dekavalla

Stephen Richard Fri, 09/24/2021 - 20:02

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Alenka Jelen-Sanchez

Date Published

Tue, 09/20/2016 - 12:00

Category

Media

Type of Resource

Academic Paper

Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)

23pp

Fast Facts

This analyses the referendum coverage on BBC’s Reporting Scotland in the final month of the campaign. Findings suggest that, despite the presence of many types of sources, male-dominated political elites were the main focus in the news. The coverage more broadly manifests a liberal democratic logic whereby the media represent the views of politicians and political organisations to the public, whose role is to make an informed choice between them, with comparatively limited opportunities to participate in the mediated political debate.

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his article explores the prominence of different types of sources in the coverage of the 2014 Scottish independence referendum on BBC Scotland’s regional news bulletin. It combines the most commonly used classifications of news sources in the literature and proposes an integrated taxonomy, in which official, unofficial, elite and non-elite sources may take on news-shaper or news-maker roles. This taxonomy is used to analyse the referendum coverage on BBC’s Reporting Scotland in the final month of the campaign. Findings suggest that, despite the presence of many types of sources, male-dominated political elites were the main focus in the news. Although the inclusion of some grassroots and citizen sources is encouraging, the coverage more broadly manifests a liberal democratic logic whereby the media represent the views of politicians and political organisations to the public, whose role is to make an informed choice between them, with comparatively limited opportunities to participate in the mediated political debate.

British Politics volume 12, pages449–472 (2017) fulll article behind paywall

Resource Address (URL)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41293-016-0026-4

Keywords

news media

TV news

2014 independence referendum

BBC

Language English

The Yes Volunteers: Capturing the biggest grassroots campaign in Scotland’s history

Stephen Richard — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 19:57:17 +0000

The Yes Volunteers: Capturing the biggest grassroots campaign in Scotland’s history

Primary Author or Creator

Iain Black

Stephen Richard Sun, 09/12/2021 - 20:57

Additional Author(s) / Creators

Sara Masden, Common Weal

Alternative Published Date

March 2016

Category

Independence

Type of Resource

Assessment report

Fast Facts

Much has been said about the Yes campaign, much has been written about its vibrancy and excitement, openness and inclusivity. It was planned to be the biggest grassroots campaign in Scotland’s history, it has been said that it brought new people to politics and represented a departure from the type of campaign seen when political parties fight for our vote. Yes was said to have been positive and Better Together was supposed to have been negative.

This report provides detailed results of what we believe to be the largest and most comprehensive survey of those who said they took part in the Yes campaign. It examined who the volunteers were, what they did, what they thought of the campaign and their experience of it and the results from it provide evidence to support, refine or debunk ideas held about the campaign.

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― 993 Yes volunteers responded to an online survey and to collect their views, we contacted a wide range of Yes supporting groups.

― It aims to understand who campaigned, what they did, what motivated them to take part, their assessment of both the Yes and No campaigns and how they experienced being part of it.

― The survey ranges over 64 questions with many multiple item scales and seeks to provide a detailed account of the results including notes on question wording, order and response formats.

― The Yes campaign was successful in bringing new people into political campaigning and many of them expressed an interest in continuing in organised politics afterwards.

― Overall, we can conclude that volunteers believed that the 2014 independence referendum campaign was the largest ever political campaign seen in Scotland and the campaign culture and leadership appears to have been strongly grassroots orientated.

Resource Address (URL)

https://commonweal.scot/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/The-Yes-Volunteers.pdf

Keywords

Yes Campaign

Independence politics

2014 independence referendum

Language English