Notations of Islandness: Scottish Cultural Work, Enterprise, and “Remote Place” Narratives
Lynda Harling Stalker, PhD (St. Francis Xavier University) and Kathryn A. Burnett, PhD (University of the West of Scotland) Over the last decade, our research collaboration has involved looking more closely at island art and craft economies, but especially the sociological category of identity and the practice of cultural working. We explore the tensions of living and doing cultural work on islands, particularly Scottish ones. In this blog we reflect on the signifiers and the complicities of...