Impaled Upon a Thistle

Cameron, Ewen A.

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“…117 But there was a paradox here: higher education campaigners in the 1970s, including some unionists seeking more autonomy within the Union state, had campaigned against the inclusion of higher education in the debates about devolution in the 1970s, and Principals came out strongly against higher education becoming devolved to the proposed Scottish Assembly, regardless of whether or not they were in favour of political devolution more generally. 118 To many in Scotland, Scottish national institutions in the context of the United Kingdom still appeared "levers […] by which they might enjoy full equality" in the Union. 119 The seeming self-government of universities through the UGC with its emphasis on institutional autonomy thus worked as an "antidote to nationalism" in the debates of the 1970s.…”

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“…119 The seeming self-government of universities through the UGC with its emphasis on institutional autonomy thus worked as an "antidote to nationalism" in the debates of the 1970s. 120 But the shift in the public opinion vis-à-vis students and universities meant that universities had now become part of the "political bargaining" process. 121 The distribution of funds within the UK union state was no longer a mere technocratic act, but was now part and parcel of the political debate about the scale and shape of the public sector in the UK.…”

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Challenging the Myths of the Scottish Sixties:

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2020

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This article challenges two myths about the British and Scottish Sixties: first, that there was no real student radicalism in Scotland in the long 1960s, and second that this radicalism was confined to narrow groups of the extreme left. Rather than focusing on processes of cultural change and their manifestations, this essay conceptualises ‘1968’ as a series of political contestations over the form of university governance and, by implication, government in the United Kingdom from the mid-1960s and to the mid-1970s. Conceptually, this article brings together an analysis of governmental and university policy making with the politics of protest. It draws attention to the interaction between local experiences and central structures in framing the protests, and it highlights how the student protests on the Stirling campus gave expression to broader fractures within the UK polity. Thus, this article demonstrates how students expressed dissatisfaction with the realities of technocratic planning in the context of the centralised UK state by calling for more representation. In doing so, it offers two conceptual messages for scholars working on ‘1968’ more generally: ideological currents and value changes should be connected to specific local places of contestations; and the call for student representation against technocratic planning should be taken more seriously and analysed in the context of these contestations and embedded in a discussion about the relationship between culture and politics.

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Section: Shock and Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%