Commemorating and erasing memories of Empire in the Scottish landscape, 1707-2007.
HEI: University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow
School: Scottish History
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Mackillop (Professor in Global Scottish Histories, University of Glasgow)
Dr Stephen Mullen (Lecturer in History – Legacies of Atlantic Slavery, University of Glasgow)
Dr Fraser MacDonald (Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography, University of Edinburgh)Â
Keywords: Scotland empire landscape memory power
About Cait’s Research:
The PhD examines the cultural politics of Empire within the Scottish landscape between 1707-2007. It contributes to a major reappraisal of Scotland’s commemoration of Empire and answers a question of contemporary pertinence: how did Scots ‘forget’ their colonial history when it was so pervasive at the time?
The project traces the creation of the memory of Empire in Dumfries & Galloway, Lanarkshire, Orkney, Perthshire, and Ross & Cromarty through a critical analysis of archival, cultural, and spatial ‘sites of memory,’ from the colonial moment to the memorialised present.
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