Political and Cultural Elite Battles and the ‘Children of the Echo’

Abstract

The representation and articulation of the nature of Scotland is in many important respects unsatisfactory, as Chapter 2 described, with numerous untested assumptions inadequately examined or scrutinised. Scotland is inarguably a ‘nation’ and the prospect of this being contested or terminated is not plausible in any sense in any near future. Yet, manifestations of ‘nationhood’ have many permutations and interpretations globally and historically; the standpoint that ‘nationhood’ automatically equates with conventional ‘statehood’ is not, and has never been, a clear, unambiguous road.