Andrew Blaikie
Biographic Data
| ID | 111445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Blaikie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Blaikie |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIKIE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7913-6872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cerebral Visual Impairment on the Web: An Exploration of an Educational Web Resource as a Bridge to Public Understanding
Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) is the most common form of childhood visual impairment. Yet it remains the least well understood by parents and professionals alike. There is an urgent need to provide a bridge between academic knowledge concerning CVI, and to give a practical understanding of the condition to those affected, parents, carers, and professionals alike so that a common language can be shared between patients, their carers and profess…
History, Sociology, Modernity: How Connect
The Scots Imagination And Modern Memory
Retrieving ‘that invisible leeway’: Landscapes, cultures, belonging
This chapter complements the interpretation of the ideational and emotive bond of place and past by considering relationships between landscape and identity, again finding traces of belonging in the remembrance of places as they once reputedly were. It notes that in the Scottish case, the ‘natural’ has been culturally constructed so as to present a ‘wilderness’ devoid of people, while those who inhabit the country's peripheral shores and islands …
Imagining the face of a nation: Scotland, modernity and the places of memory
Relationships between modernity and national identity raise issues of how place is remembered morally and visually. This article considers aspects of cultural output in Scotland during the 1930s. While the romantic, rural emphasis of travelogue imagery evaded urbanization, the important literary nationalists Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid produced nightmare visions of a country defiled by industrialization and imperialism. Against this, the pione…
Vulnerability among illegitimate children in nineteenth century Scotland
Resume Les enfants naturels forment, comme on sait, un groupe particulierement vulnerable, mais les raisons en sont encore mysterieuses. Cet article utilise des registres demographiques longitudinaux (obtenus en croisant les donnees des registres d’etat civil avec celles des recensements decennaux de la periode 1861-1901) portant sur l’ile ecossaise de Skye pour enqueter sur le niveau et les causes du desavantage dont souffraient les enfants ille…
Accounting for Poverty: Conflicting Constructions of Family Survival in Scotland, 1855-1925
As in England, the moral implications of pauperism were significant in the operation of the Scottish Poor Law. While the ways in which kin were distributed reflect patterns of survival embedded in local cultures, those failing to conform to an idealised family model, especially unmarried mothers, were disadvantaged, as contested relief claims indicate. Analysis considers encounters between local Inspectors and applicants using a framework that dr…
Wenham, ‘More Enterprising Spirit’
Nuclear hardship or variant dependency? Households and the Scottish Poor Law
The ‘nuclear hardship’ hypothesis claims that where nuclear families predominated collective aid prevailed , whereas extended households were co-extensive with kin-based support. This article tests this assumption by considering the relationship between households and the Poor Law in Lowland Scots communities after 1845. While cross-sectional census data are inconclusive , a longitudinal analysis based on case study evidence , including temporary…
Rosalind MITCHISON, The Old Poor Law in Scotland: The Experience of Poverty, 1574–1845
Problems With ‘Strategy’ in Microsocial History: Families and Narratives, Sources and Methods
This article considers the extent to which the concept of strategy may be applied in analyses of household and family behaviour. Strategy implies conscious, long-term decision making. However, such rationality is often difficult to discern, and when findings are compared using nominal record linkage across several sources elements of conflict and uncertainty emerge within families. A Scottish case study indicates the value of multiple-source meth…
Ageing and Popular Culture
Photographs in the Cultural Account: Contested Narratives and Collective Memory in the Scottish Islands
Traditional' photographic images of people in the Scottish islands represent them as marginal and romantic, determined survivors become quaint curiosities. The discourse of modernity has produced a dichotomy between contemporary society and a pre-industrial Arcadia that is vividly reflected in the emphasis on the anthropological 'otherness' of island ways of life. Yet whilst such stereotypes are evident from the archival record, the specific uses…
Migration and Cultural Identity: Within and Beyond the Nation. A Review Article
Unhappy After Their Own Fashion: Infant Lives and Family Biographies in Southwest Scotland, 1855-1939
Scottish Illegitimacy: Social Adjustment or Moral Economy
October 01 1998 Scottish Illegitimacy: Social Adjustment or Moral Economy? Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Online ISSN: 1530-9169 Print ISSN: 0022-1953 © 1998 Massachusett…
Beside the Sea: Visual Imagery, Ageing and Heritage
The role of older people as inadvertent exemplars of all that was good about the nation’s past is thrown into high relief when we consider representations of Britain’s ‘maritime heritage’. Yet such mythology has a longer pedigree than may at first be apparent. Victorian pioneers of photography championed the custom, dress and extended family roles of elders in fishing villages because these displayed an older moral world distinct from the sins of…
Clanship to Crofters' war: The social transformation of the Scottish highlands
Motivation and Motherhood: Past and Present Attributions in the Reconstruction of Illegitimacy
Epidemics' of teenage pregnancy and 'amazing rises' in illegitimacy are part of a recurrent moral panic about the social implications of sexual nonconformity. Simultaneously, major social surveys attempt to provide empirical assessments of actual sexual behaviour. There is often a yawning gulf between the images created by press and politicians and the experiences of their subjects. Similarly, in the 1850s when statistics first ruptured the cosy …
A Kind of Loving: Illegitimacy, Grandparents and the Rural Economy of North East Scotland, 1750-1900
a tendency to inflame the passions'.1 In the interpretation ofScottish sexual behaviour we had to consume a good deal more speculative stodge, little of it any more efficacious, until in the mid 1970s Christopher Smout and Ian Carter engaged in combat over the causes of Scotland's distinctive geographical distribution ofbastardy ratios during the nineteenth century.2 That debate was inconclusive, but along witb Michael Teitelbaum's analysis of th…
Druggets and uglies, crotal and cailleachan: Remembering the recent past. A review article
Photographic Memory, Ageing and the Life Course
Although photographs are frequently used to illustrate discussions about ageing they have not been assessed critically as gerontological sources. This paper argues that the pictorial record since the 1840s contains many problems and possibilities. A case study of Victorian Scotland indicates the methodological pitfalls of acknowledging images at face value. Uncritical acceptance of the assumptions of modernisation theory has underlain much of the…
History of old age: From antiquity to the renaissance
The Emerging Political Power of the Elderly in Britain 1908–1948
Despite major shifts in the position of older people in British society during the first half of the twentieth century, accounts of the emergence of retirement pensions have ignored the role of old age pressure groups, preferring arguments which emphasise structured dependency rather than human agency. By contrast, this paper examines the political campaigns mounted by two groups – one claiming to speak on behalf of older people, the other compos…
Historical geography at the I.B.G
Beside the Sea: Visual Imagery, Ageing and Heritage
The role of older people as inadvertent exemplars of all that was good about the nation’s past is thrown into high relief when we consider representations of Britain’s ‘maritime heritage’. Yet such mythology has a longer pedigree than may at first be apparent. Victorian pioneers of photography championed the custom, dress and extended family roles of elders in fishing villages because these displayed an older moral world distinct from the sins of…
Photographs in the Cultural Account: Contested Narratives and Collective Memory in the Scottish Islands
Traditional' photographic images of people in the Scottish islands represent them as marginal and romantic, determined survivors become quaint curiosities. The discourse of modernity has produced a dichotomy between contemporary society and a pre-industrial Arcadia that is vividly reflected in the emphasis on the anthropological 'otherness' of island ways of life. Yet whilst such stereotypes are evident from the archival record, the specific uses…
The Emerging Political Power of the Elderly in Britain 1908–1948
Despite major shifts in the position of older people in British society during the first half of the twentieth century, accounts of the emergence of retirement pensions have ignored the role of old age pressure groups, preferring arguments which emphasise structured dependency rather than human agency. By contrast, this paper examines the political campaigns mounted by two groups – one claiming to speak on behalf of older people, the other compos…
Motivation and Motherhood: Past and Present Attributions in the Reconstruction of Illegitimacy
Epidemics' of teenage pregnancy and 'amazing rises' in illegitimacy are part of a recurrent moral panic about the social implications of sexual nonconformity. Simultaneously, major social surveys attempt to provide empirical assessments of actual sexual behaviour. There is often a yawning gulf between the images created by press and politicians and the experiences of their subjects. Similarly, in the 1850s when statistics first ruptured the cosy …
Photographic Memory, Ageing and the Life Course
Although photographs are frequently used to illustrate discussions about ageing they have not been assessed critically as gerontological sources. This paper argues that the pictorial record since the 1840s contains many problems and possibilities. A case study of Victorian Scotland indicates the methodological pitfalls of acknowledging images at face value. Uncritical acceptance of the assumptions of modernisation theory has underlain much of the…
Accounting for Poverty: Conflicting Constructions of Family Survival in Scotland, 1855-1925
As in England, the moral implications of pauperism were significant in the operation of the Scottish Poor Law. While the ways in which kin were distributed reflect patterns of survival embedded in local cultures, those failing to conform to an idealised family model, especially unmarried mothers, were disadvantaged, as contested relief claims indicate. Analysis considers encounters between local Inspectors and applicants using a framework that dr…
Problems With ‘Strategy’ in Microsocial History: Families and Narratives, Sources and Methods
This article considers the extent to which the concept of strategy may be applied in analyses of household and family behaviour. Strategy implies conscious, long-term decision making. However, such rationality is often difficult to discern, and when findings are compared using nominal record linkage across several sources elements of conflict and uncertainty emerge within families. A Scottish case study indicates the value of multiple-source meth…
Scottish Illegitimacy: Social Adjustment or Moral Economy
October 01 1998 Scottish Illegitimacy: Social Adjustment or Moral Economy? Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Online ISSN: 1530-9169 Print ISSN: 0022-1953 © 1998 Massachusett…
Clanship to Crofters' war: The social transformation of the Scottish highlands
History of old age: From antiquity to the renaissance
Historical geography at the I.B.G
History of old age: From antiquity to the renaissance
The Emerging Political Power of the Elderly in Britain 1908–1948
Despite major shifts in the position of older people in British society during the first half of the twentieth century, accounts of the emergence of retirement pensions have ignored the role of old age pressure groups, preferring arguments which emphasise structured dependency rather than human agency. By contrast, this paper examines the political campaigns mounted by two groups – one claiming to speak on behalf of older people, the other compos…
A Kind of Loving: Illegitimacy, Grandparents and the Rural Economy of North East Scotland, 1750-1900
a tendency to inflame the passions'.1 In the interpretation ofScottish sexual behaviour we had to consume a good deal more speculative stodge, little of it any more efficacious, until in the mid 1970s Christopher Smout and Ian Carter engaged in combat over the causes of Scotland's distinctive geographical distribution ofbastardy ratios during the nineteenth century.2 That debate was inconclusive, but along witb Michael Teitelbaum's analysis of th…
Druggets and uglies, crotal and cailleachan: Remembering the recent past. A review article
Photographic Memory, Ageing and the Life Course
Although photographs are frequently used to illustrate discussions about ageing they have not been assessed critically as gerontological sources. This paper argues that the pictorial record since the 1840s contains many problems and possibilities. A case study of Victorian Scotland indicates the methodological pitfalls of acknowledging images at face value. Uncritical acceptance of the assumptions of modernisation theory has underlain much of the…
Clanship to Crofters' war: The social transformation of the Scottish highlands
Motivation and Motherhood: Past and Present Attributions in the Reconstruction of Illegitimacy
Epidemics' of teenage pregnancy and 'amazing rises' in illegitimacy are part of a recurrent moral panic about the social implications of sexual nonconformity. Simultaneously, major social surveys attempt to provide empirical assessments of actual sexual behaviour. There is often a yawning gulf between the images created by press and politicians and the experiences of their subjects. Similarly, in the 1850s when statistics first ruptured the cosy …
Beside the Sea: Visual Imagery, Ageing and Heritage
The role of older people as inadvertent exemplars of all that was good about the nation’s past is thrown into high relief when we consider representations of Britain’s ‘maritime heritage’. Yet such mythology has a longer pedigree than may at first be apparent. Victorian pioneers of photography championed the custom, dress and extended family roles of elders in fishing villages because these displayed an older moral world distinct from the sins of…
Unhappy After Their Own Fashion: Infant Lives and Family Biographies in Southwest Scotland, 1855-1939
Scottish Illegitimacy: Social Adjustment or Moral Economy
October 01 1998 Scottish Illegitimacy: Social Adjustment or Moral Economy? Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrew Blaikie Andrew Blaikie is Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Online ISSN: 1530-9169 Print ISSN: 0022-1953 © 1998 Massachusett…
Migration and Cultural Identity: Within and Beyond the Nation. A Review Article
Rosalind MITCHISON, The Old Poor Law in Scotland: The Experience of Poverty, 1574–1845
Problems With ‘Strategy’ in Microsocial History: Families and Narratives, Sources and Methods
This article considers the extent to which the concept of strategy may be applied in analyses of household and family behaviour. Strategy implies conscious, long-term decision making. However, such rationality is often difficult to discern, and when findings are compared using nominal record linkage across several sources elements of conflict and uncertainty emerge within families. A Scottish case study indicates the value of multiple-source meth…
Ageing and Popular Culture
Photographs in the Cultural Account: Contested Narratives and Collective Memory in the Scottish Islands
Traditional' photographic images of people in the Scottish islands represent them as marginal and romantic, determined survivors become quaint curiosities. The discourse of modernity has produced a dichotomy between contemporary society and a pre-industrial Arcadia that is vividly reflected in the emphasis on the anthropological 'otherness' of island ways of life. Yet whilst such stereotypes are evident from the archival record, the specific uses…
Nuclear hardship or variant dependency? Households and the Scottish Poor Law
The ‘nuclear hardship’ hypothesis claims that where nuclear families predominated collective aid prevailed , whereas extended households were co-extensive with kin-based support. This article tests this assumption by considering the relationship between households and the Poor Law in Lowland Scots communities after 1845. While cross-sectional census data are inconclusive , a longitudinal analysis based on case study evidence , including temporary…
Wenham, ‘More Enterprising Spirit’
Accounting for Poverty: Conflicting Constructions of Family Survival in Scotland, 1855-1925
As in England, the moral implications of pauperism were significant in the operation of the Scottish Poor Law. While the ways in which kin were distributed reflect patterns of survival embedded in local cultures, those failing to conform to an idealised family model, especially unmarried mothers, were disadvantaged, as contested relief claims indicate. Analysis considers encounters between local Inspectors and applicants using a framework that dr…
Vulnerability among illegitimate children in nineteenth century Scotland
Resume Les enfants naturels forment, comme on sait, un groupe particulierement vulnerable, mais les raisons en sont encore mysterieuses. Cet article utilise des registres demographiques longitudinaux (obtenus en croisant les donnees des registres d’etat civil avec celles des recensements decennaux de la periode 1861-1901) portant sur l’ile ecossaise de Skye pour enqueter sur le niveau et les causes du desavantage dont souffraient les enfants ille…
The Scots Imagination And Modern Memory
Retrieving ‘that invisible leeway’: Landscapes, cultures, belonging
This chapter complements the interpretation of the ideational and emotive bond of place and past by considering relationships between landscape and identity, again finding traces of belonging in the remembrance of places as they once reputedly were. It notes that in the Scottish case, the ‘natural’ has been culturally constructed so as to present a ‘wilderness’ devoid of people, while those who inhabit the country's peripheral shores and islands …
Imagining the face of a nation: Scotland, modernity and the places of memory
Relationships between modernity and national identity raise issues of how place is remembered morally and visually. This article considers aspects of cultural output in Scotland during the 1930s. While the romantic, rural emphasis of travelogue imagery evaded urbanization, the important literary nationalists Edwin Muir and Hugh MacDiarmid produced nightmare visions of a country defiled by industrialization and imperialism. Against this, the pione…
History, Sociology, Modernity: How Connect
Cerebral Visual Impairment on the Web: An Exploration of an Educational Web Resource as a Bridge to Public Understanding
Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) is the most common form of childhood visual impairment. Yet it remains the least well understood by parents and professionals alike. There is an urgent need to provide a bridge between academic knowledge concerning CVI, and to give a practical understanding of the condition to those affected, parents, carers, and professionals alike so that a common language can be shared between patients, their carers and profess…
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