Research Catalog

Title

Time and action in the Scottish Independence Referendum / Michael Gardiner.

Author

Gardiner, Michael, 1970-

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Details

Description

99 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This book describes the Scottish independence referendum as the latest incarnation of a contest between two times - on one hand, an ideally continuous time beyond determination underpinning financial sovereignty, on the other the interruptions to this ideal continuity inherent in human action. Pointing to a number of linked historical frameworks, the question of self-determination is described as creating fissures in the empty time of the sovereign economy, and fundamental questions are asked of a British left that keeps returning to a "zombie state." The book goes to the "natural-and-eternal" principles of the British state and traces them through consensus to highlight the tightening of the constitution against popular determination. It also shows how loyalty to a financial "empty time" is in chronic decline.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Subject

• Sovereignty
• Self-determination, National > Scotland
• Science
• Scotland > History > Autonomy and independence movements

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-93) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The undead, again -- Empty time -- Cracked realism -- The golden country -- The spirit of '57 -- Permanent labour -- The nuclear eternal -- Scotland, queued.

ISBN

• 9781137545930 (hbk.)
• 1137545933 (hbk.)
• 9781137545954 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781137545947 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 919076102
• SCSB-11418898

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library