Roots tourism as return movement
Semantics and the Scottish diaspora
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20071101 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Basu (0000-0002-4536-9528, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Emigrant Homecomings (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.7765/9781526119643.00015 |
| OpenAlex | W188169232 |
| ISBN | 9781526119643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 4 |
This chapter concerns with the contemporary phenomenon of 'roots tourism' in the Scottish Highlands and Islands: journeys made by people of Scottish Highland descent ordinarily living in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In diasporic contexts there are return movements such as Zionism and Rastafarianism, movements that are at once religious, political and aesthetic. In LaCapra's terms, the Highland Clearances emerge as the historical trauma through which the existential anxieties of people of Scottish or part-Scottish descent dispersed throughout the world may be acted out, narrated and brought into the public domain. The Clearances are thus misidentified as the foundational trauma of the Scottish diaspora, a myth in which the Highlanders suffered a genocide, were expelled from their ancestral homeland, and forced to live in slavery and exile overseas
Archaeology · Diaspora · Ethnology · Existentialism · Genealogy · Geography · Homeland · Mythology · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tourism · Classics · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2019 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |