Devolution And Identity

by Stapleton,Karyn

• ISBN13: 9780754644798
• ISBN10: 0754644790
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The identity implications have been overlooked from discussions on devolution, which have tended to focus on constitutional, legal and financial issues. In this volume, contributors from the communities under discussion explore the ways in which devolution is experienced and understood by citizens from the devolved regions of the UK. The additional inclusion of a US perspective allows parallels with American federalism to be drawn out.Informed by a discursive/textual/communication approach to identity, Devolution and Identity offers a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, including both macro- and micro-level analyses of devolution and identity processes. Themes covered include discourse and interaction, national identity, flags and emblems, gender representation, newspaper letters, regional marketing, language ideology, history and culture, artistic practice, minority identities and political ideology.In exploring the impact of the devolution process on both individual and group identities, this book provides a richer understanding of the devolution process itself, as well as a new understanding of the relationship between socio-political structures and identity.

Table of Contents

Identity categories in use : Britishness, devolution, and the Ulster Scots identity in Northern Ireland	p. 11
Ideologies of language and community in post-devolution Wales	p. 33
Vernacular constructions of 'national identity' in post-devolution Scotland and England	p. 51
Artists, Wales, narrative and devolution	p. 77
New colours for the Orange state : finding symbolic space in a newly devolved Northern Ireland	p. 95
Categorisation, accounts and motives : 'letters-to-the-editor' and devolution in Wales	p. 111
'Fantasy echo' and modern Britishness : commemoration and identity in Northern Ireland	p. 127
Engendering devolution	p. 143
Marketing identities in devolved regions : the role of global corporate culture in Scotland and Wallonia	p. 157
'Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward' : citizenship and devolution, and the British national party	p. 173
Epilogue : in the context of devolution	p. 183
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