This seminar will explore the National and Supra-National dilemmas now facing Scotland. The very real prospect of a British exit from the European Union has transformed many of the arguments around Scottish independence aired in 2014. Likewise, Supreme Court judgements around Brexit serve to undermine arguments and claims about the permanence of powers devolved and reveal (again) the Constitutional primacy of Westminster. Into this complex mix come very political questions. Since staying in both unions does not appear to be an option, then which union (European or British) is most valued by Scots? Might Brexit Taking Back Control prove the gravedigger of the British State? What risks are there in the SNPs pro-European stance given that a million Scots, including many erstwhile pro-Independence voters, voted to Leave? And what role, if any, does national belonging felling Scottish and/or British have in how these complicated issues develop?
Michael Rosie (@rosie_michael) is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Programme Director of MSc Nationalism Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is also Editor of Scottish Affairs, with special issues on Scotland's Referendum (2014), on Tackling Sectarianism (2015), and on Scotland: All Change? (2015).
Iro Konstantinou is the ASEN Seminar Series Chair and PhD candidate in Sociology at the University of Warwick.
The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (@asenevents) is an interdisciplinary student-led research association.
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