the belonging project

Tag: Gaelic

  • findings 2: Dùthchas – belonging as worldview

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    Dùthchas: Belonging as ‘Home’This past summer, preparing to delve into this sabbatical project, I read Scottish social histories and scoured my mother’s PEI Scots history bookshelf, trying to wrap my mind around the sociocultural and socioeconomic shifts that rang the knell for the old Gaelic order of the Highland clan system. I was trying to…

  • findings, part the first: the sociomaterial intersections of belonging

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    The photo memories feature on Facebook – and yes, I should ditch Meta…and no, I haven’t yet – reminded me this past weekend that it’s been two years since I first landed at the University of Highlands and Islands, for #OER23. My first time seeing much of Inverness in daylight. Everything was April sunshine and…

  • over the sea to Skye

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    The first time I came to the Isle of Skye, I was nearly twenty-nine. It was Hallowe’en. Only one little girl came to trick or treat at the backpacker hostel. I think my backpacking companion and I ended up eating the whole remainder of their fun-size Mars bars. I’d never had British chocolate before. I…