Scotland 2020 : hopeful stories for a northern nation / edited by Gerry Hassan, Eddie Gibb, Lydia Howland ; with a foreword by George Reid
- Published
- London : Demos ; Edinburgh, Scotland : Scottish Book Trust, 2005.
- Physical Description
- 243 pages ; 20 cm
- Additional Creators
- Hassan, Gerry, Gibb, Eddie, Howland, Lydia, Reid, George, Demos, and Scottish Book Trust
- Contents
- Scotland 2020: the power of hope / Gerry Hassan and Eddie Gibb -- That was then and this is now: imagining new stories about a northern nation / Gerry Hassand -- A futures literate nation / Matthew Horne and Helen McCarthy -- Facing the new Atlantic / Ken MacLeod -- The imagineers / Julie Bertagna -- Scotland the grave / Pennie Taylor -- Intervention / Ruaridh Nicoll -- the tartan initiative / Anne Donovan -- An adaptive state: the personalisation of public services -- Public sector change / Iain Macwhirter and John Elvidge -- The Sandyford initiative: innovation in practice - a revolution in the provision of sexual health care and advice / Alison Bigrigg -- The learning network: the Real experience - a move towards lifelong learning / Jonathan Clark -- Boho Boffins: why cities need science and jazz / Melissa Mean -- The age of capitals: Edinburgh as Culture City / Marc Lambert -- Scotland after Barnett: towards fiscal autonomy / Iain McLean -- Scotland, Europe and the world crisis: regionalism and Scotland's shifting position between Britain and Europe / Christopher Harvie -- The authentic tourist: how the past keeps coming back / Ian Yeoman, Mandy Brown and Una McMahon-Beattie -- The myth of the egalitarian society and the equality debate: are we really Jock Tamson's bairns? / Rowena Arshad and Elinor Kelly -- The future of Scottish football: time for a new story? / Stephen Morrow -- Nairn day: a public conversation about the future / Eddie Palmer and Matthew Horne -- Happiness, well-being and economic prosperity / David Bell in conversation with Clive Hamilton -- Scotland's 'Velvet Revolution' / Carol Craig in conversation with Tom Devine -- Scotland in the global age / Tom Nairn in conversation with George Kerevan.
- Summary
- "Scotland has a problem thinking imaginatively about the future. There is an undercurrent of doubt and pessimism in Scottish culture that likes to accentuate the negative. Globalisation is usually blamed for erosion of Scottish values and identity. But often that pessimism turns into fatalism - the feeling that the future is beyond our control. The 'official future,' which is promoted by Scottish public institutions, takes a more optimistic view and sees economic growth leading to a better tomorrow. There is also a sense of fatalism in this version of the future - the idea that the shape of the future has already been determined by powerful economic and social forces. Scotland 2020 explores the connection between stories and thinking imaginatively about the future. This book attempts to inject a new quality to the debate about Scotland's future - hope. The idea of story and storytelling is central to Scotland 2020, and contained in the book are specially commissioned short stories about the future by leading Scottish fiction writers, as well as essays and dialogues with internationally renowned thinkers. Their conclusion is that hoping for a better future for Scotland is not naive, but a pre-condition for acting to make it happen."--Page 4 of cover
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- ISBN
- 1841801380
9781841801384 - Collection
- Arthur O. Lewis Utopia Collection.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Source of Acquisition
- Rare Books copy: Gift of Lyman Tower Sargent.
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