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Everybody’s Scottish at the End of the Day’: Nationalism and Social Justice Amongst Young Yes Voters

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Breeze, Maddie, Gorringe, Hugo, Jamieson, Lynn, Rosie, Michael·2015·Scottish Affairs
DOI 10.3366/scot.2015.0094
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In the wake of the diverse mobilization for Yes in the 2014 Independence Referendum and unprecedented SNP gains in the 2015 General Election, a number of commentators deployed a rhetoric of ‘dangerous nationalism’ by way of explanation and criticism. Such an interpretation is refuted by survey evidence and complicated by sociologies of nationalism and national identity. This short article joins these debates, and presents analysis of ten explorative interviews conducted with young Yes voters between the Referendum and the General Election. There is no simple narrative of ‘nationalism’ in these young people's accounts. Some explicitly distanced themselves from nationalist sentiment, emphasising a commitment to social justice as their key motivation for Yes. Others shared this primary concern but expressed it as overlapping with a national(ist) identity in complex ways. While disavowals of ‘romantic’ or ‘narrow’ nationalism occur on both sides of the independence debate, this study points to how more banal, and nuanced discourses of national(ist) identity underpin respondents’ explanations for voting Yes.

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Authors
Breeze, M., Gorringe, H., Jamieson, L., & Rosie, M.
ORCID
Venue
Scottish Affairs
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
2015-11
Volume
24
Issue
4
Pages
419-431
ISSN
  • 0966-0356 (ISSN-L)
  • 2053-888X
DOI
10.3366/scot.2015.0094
OpenAlex
W2221052862
Cited by
8
References
14
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1
FWCI
6.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Scottish Affairs (publishedVersion)
  • Queen Margaret University Publications Repository (Queen Margaret University) (submittedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Systems and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Scottish History and National Identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Irish and British Studies
Keywords
Scottish independence, young voters, nationalism, national identity, social justice, Scottish National Party, voter motivation, banal nationalism, Scottish politics

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