‘Give us land and plenty of it’: the ideological basis to land and landscape in the Scottish Highlands

Withers, Charles

doi:10.1080/01433768.1990.10594430

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“…Controversy over lost ancient landscapes is not uncommon. Withers (1990) has shown how the meaning of landscapes lost formed the basis for violent rallies over rights and injustice in societal organization in the Scottish Highlands in the 19th century. A landscape is not something external to society.…”

Section: 'Landscape' As a Factual And Normative Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscapes lost

Arnesen¹

1998

Landscape Research

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In practical life a landscape will function as a bridge between the factual and the normative. Landscapes are part of the identity and 'memory-bank' of social groups, and can function as a tool for public sector management. Landscapes can be given a semiotic interpretation, from which flows the idea that several landscapes may cover the same area. It also follows that landscape change must be kept analytically separate from material change in an area. A national park regime is viewed as an attempt to preserve a small number of the landscapes within an area. A national park policy diverts attention from what is happening outside the parks, as has been the case in Norway. Landscapes outside are lost in the sense that due attention is not paid to the natural and social changes taking place. The national parks policy in Norway is heavily biased towards area protection in remote mountain regions. It is argued that one reason for this, is the definition of the 'original' Norwegian landscape found in the nationalromantic painting tradition in Norway that dates back about 100 years.

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Section: 'Landscape' As a Factual And Normative Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscapes lost

Arnesen¹

1998

Landscape Research

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“…It was a right held collectively by all members of the clan to the land on which they lived and which they worked in common prior to the enclosures of the 18th and 19th centuries (Hunter, 1976, pages 156^157). The symbol became, as Charles Withers (1988, page 331) has shown, the key``legitimizing notion'' for resistance during the Highland Land Wars of the 19th century and the central symbolic resource for reclaiming lost rights to land (see also Hunter, 1976, chapters 8, 9, 10;Withers, 1990).…”

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Re-Claiming Place: The Millennium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland

Mackenzie

2002

Environ Plan D

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In this paper I explore the metaphorical and material significance of the Millennium Forest at Borgie in the context of an emerging movement for the collective purchase of private estates in the crofting areas of Scotland. My argument focuses, first, on the means whereby the Forest, as visual art, is constituted as a site through which what Edward Said calls a ‘culture of resistance’ is mobilised and through which an inclusive sense of belonging to place is imagined. Second, I connect the poetics of resistance of the Forest with the politics of territorial land claims of the North Sutherland Community Forestry Trust, whose objective is to reverse ongoing processes of dispossession through the collective ownership and management of the 3000–hectare Borgie Forest which the one-hectare Millennium Forest borders.

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“…114 While it should not be reified, there is no denying the emotional or moral power of duthchas to those who accepted it and its appeal underlay riots and 'land raids' in the nineteenth-and even twentieth-century Highlands and Islands. 115 The rights it conferred seem almost tangible, even if they had no legal force and some Highland tenants actually refused to accept written leases, which they felt would undermine their claim on the favour of their chief.…”

Section: Custom and Agrarian Change In Highland Scotlandmentioning

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Custom in Context: Medieval and Early Modern Scotland and England

Houston

2011

Past & Present

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‘Give us land and plenty of it’: the ideological basis to land and landscape in the Scottish Highlands

Cited by 10 publications

References 7 publications

Landscapes lost

Landscapes lost

Re-Claiming Place: The Millennium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland

Custom in Context: Medieval and Early Modern Scotland and England

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