Reading Braveheart
Representing and Contesting Scottish Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12286171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Edensor (0000-0002-4715-6024, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 21 (First Serie |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 135-158 |
| Publication date | 1997-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scottish Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0966-0356 • E-ISSN: 2053-888X |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/scot.1997.0061 |
| OpenAlex | W2042079660 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article has emerged out of my interest in the production of Stirling as a symbolic heritage centre and particularly the centrality of the figures of Wallace and Bruce in the town's place-image, and in nationalist iconography. By focusing on tourist practices and narratives at Bannockburn Heritage Centre and the Wallace Monument, I have described elsewhere the diverse ways in which the figures have been claimed by different political projects to exemplify this or that Scottish quality (Edensor 1997). In some ways, the symbolic use of these two heroes can serve as a barometer in assessing attitudes to dominant representations of Scottishness and the tensions inherent in contestations over Scottish identity. This symbolic importance of Wallace has been given a giant boost by the international and domestic success of the Hollywood blockbuster
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Hollywood · Iconography · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Sociology · The Symbolic · Tourism · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
Tourism Geographies,Tourist Studiesand the Turn towardsMobilities
Multicultural Nationalism
Film tourism as heritage tourism
Situational analysis as a critical methodology
Nœuds celtiques – québécois
Myth-Making Through Music
Performing tourism, staging tourism
National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life
Scottish diasporic identities in the Netherlands
The Scots in England – a different kind of diaspora
Bannockburn, Braveheart, or Baccara? Ethnosymbolism, nationalism, and sport in contemporary Scotland
Water, earth, fire, air
The role of tourism in personal nationalism
Chinese Perceptions of Overseas Cultural Heritage
Scottish National Party Representations of Scottishness and Scotland
Second Generation Identities
Us and Them
Scottish clan identities in America
| Citations per year | 0.72 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |