Mémoires en migration, patrimoine et diasporisation de l’Écosse

• Main Author: Laurence Gouriévidis
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2016-12-01
• Series: Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
• Subjects: diaspora; museums; monuments; memory; heritage; Scotland
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/665

For a long time diasporic heritage with its imaginary emphasising clanship and stylised images was either overlooked or discredited. Since devolution, it has gained currency in public discourse and policies and has led to the “diasporisation” of Scotland. This article explores the changing place of diasporic heritage in Scotland since the 1970s through two case studies. Focusing on processes of remembrance of nineteenth-century Highland emigration, it highlights the tensions that underpin the relationships that different communities – home and diasporic – have with their past and the meanings ascribed to them.