Homecomings: genealogy, heritage-tourism & identity in the Scottish Highland diaspora
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This work is concerned with the processes through which members of diasporic communities, construct and negotiate aspects of their identities in relation to perceived ancestral homelands. Addressing a central paradox of globalization-the contrary movement towards localization-I examine the role of place, belonging and territorial attachment in an age often characterized by placelessness, mobility and deterritorialization. More particularly, the thesis explores flows of people, images, objects, ideas, symbols and stories within a posited Scottish diaspora, focusing on journeys made by people who claim Scottish Highland descent ordinarily living in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other regions in which Scottish migrants have historically settled, to the Scottish Highlands and Islands, pursuing genealogical research and seeking out places associated with their ancestors. Many such travellers define their journeys, contra tourism, as homecomings, quests and pilgrimages: I interrogate these assertions, considering in what ways these secular practices may be regarded as sacred acts. Through the agency of these genealogical 'journeys of discovery', I suggest that individuals are able to construct meaningful, morally-defensible and 'authentic' self-narratives from the ambiguities and discontinuities of their migrant histories, thus recovering a sense of being 'at home' in the 'maelstrom' of modernity. It is ironic that such localizing strategies are often enabled through globalizing technologies such as the internet, and, indeed, it is through the global mediascape that the Highland homeland is 'imagineered' in diasporan consciousness. I consider the relationship between these discursive realms and the material realms of the homeland, arguing that, whilst the two are inseparable, it is ultimately the phenomenological encounter with the material landscape of the Scottish Highlands and Islands that confers substance to the heritage-tourists' identity claims. The research is based on fieldwork conducted throughout the Scottish Highlands and Islands and among online Scottish heritage communities between 1998 and 2001.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".