Negotiating sustainability across scales: Community organizing in the Outer Hebrides
This paper represents voices of community organizers on Barra, a small island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although, arguably Barra is geographically and socio-politically located in the peripheries of Scotland, Britain and Europe, the island has been a center of North Atlantic maritime trade ne...
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ftopenunivgb:oai:oro.open.ac.uk:81386 2023-06-11T04:14:42+02:00 Negotiating sustainability across scales: Community organizing in the Outer Hebrides Singh, Jaspal Bartlett, Tom 2018 application/pdf https://oro.open.ac.uk/81386/ https://oro.open.ac.uk/81386/2/aila00003sin.pdf https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.00003.sin unknown https://oro.open.ac.uk/81386/2/aila00003sin.pdf Singh, Jaspal <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/js37473.html> and Bartlett, Tom (2018). Negotiating sustainability across scales: Community organizing in the Outer Hebrides. AILA Review, 30 pp. 50–71. Journal Item Public PeerReviewed 2018 ftopenunivgb https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.00003.sin 2023-05-28T06:06:51Z This paper represents voices of community organizers on Barra, a small island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although, arguably Barra is geographically and socio-politically located in the peripheries of Scotland, Britain and Europe, the island has been a center of North Atlantic maritime trade networks for centuries. In the current phase of Europeanization and devolution of powers within the United Kingdom, the community finds itself in the position of having to attend to multiple scales: the European Union, the United Kingdom, Scotland and the island itself with its various interest groups. We draw on ethnographic interviews with community organizers that were elicited for the research project Sustainability on the Edge to illustrate some political challenges and possibilities of such scalar realities. We show that community organizers construct a voice that emphasizes a historical quality of what it means to live on Barra while inflecting this quality with worldly knowledge that enables access to resources from outside the island. Our findings remind us that centers and peripheries are neither fixed categories that could simply be mapped on geographical visualizations nor notions independent of discursive practice. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic The Open University: Open Research Online (ORO) Barra ENVELOPE(-61.417,-61.417,-64.367,-64.367) AILA Review 30 50 71 |
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This paper represents voices of community organizers on Barra, a small island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Although, arguably Barra is geographically and socio-politically located in the peripheries of Scotland, Britain and Europe, the island has been a center of North Atlantic maritime trade networks for centuries. In the current phase of Europeanization and devolution of powers within the United Kingdom, the community finds itself in the position of having to attend to multiple scales: the European Union, the United Kingdom, Scotland and the island itself with its various interest groups. We draw on ethnographic interviews with community organizers that were elicited for the research project Sustainability on the Edge to illustrate some political challenges and possibilities of such scalar realities. We show that community organizers construct a voice that emphasizes a historical quality of what it means to live on Barra while inflecting this quality with worldly knowledge that enables access to resources from outside the island. Our findings remind us that centers and peripheries are neither fixed categories that could simply be mapped on geographical visualizations nor notions independent of discursive practice. |
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https://oro.open.ac.uk/81386/2/aila00003sin.pdf Singh, Jaspal <http://oro.open.ac.uk/view/person/js37473.html> and Bartlett, Tom (2018). Negotiating sustainability across scales: Community organizing in the Outer Hebrides. AILA Review, 30 pp. 50–71. |
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