(Re)Inventing Tradition? Legitimating Contending Visions of National Identity via the Scottish Register of Tartans

• In Event: Identity Politics In Europe

Brief Overview

This project explores how the Scottish Register of Tartans is a site where traditional ethno-cultural ideas of national identity are subverted and re-imagined to support a more expansive and inclusive civic idea of the nation.

Author

• Devashree Gupta, Carleton College