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Building Scotland, Building Solidarity: A Scottish Architect's Knowledge of Nation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2018

Leo Coleman
Leo Coleman*
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Anthropology, Hunter College
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Abstract

This article examines the work of Robert Hurd (1905–1963), a Scottish nationalist architect, planner, and admirer of Scottish civic traditions, in order to query and enrich current anthropological approaches to “material politics” with their focus on material assemblies, infrastructures, and interactions that operate across scales and beyond discourse. Hurd was both an expert and planner and also an “artisan of nationalism” who sought to restore Scotland's built environment as at once a civic heritage and a material resource for a future of independence and self-determination. Hurd's attention to distinctively Scottish architectural forms and to historic centers and their development over time is significant as an idiom of nationalist thought, while his architectural work highlights the formal manipulation of scale and centrality to express political aspirations. He was an expert not only of infrastructure, plans, or populations and their needs, but also of the mediation of such material facts into architectural form and, in a broader sense, forms of life. Finally, Hurd's writing on “burgh” civic and architectural traditions, and his work as a conservation architect, together allow a better understanding of the role played by a conservative, tradition-minded modernism, and of narratives of tradition and national evolution, in the twentieth-century history and present development of Scotland's national and constitutional politics.

Keywords

Scotlandnationalismheritage and preservationarchitectureinfrastructuresolidarityurban planningexpertiseRobert Hurd
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Architectural Politics
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 60 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 873 - 906
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 2018 

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Finlay, Richard. 2004. Modern Scotland, 1914–2000. London: Profile.Google Scholar
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Muehlebach, Andrea. 2017. The Body of Solidarity: Heritage, Memory, and Materiality in Post-Industrial Italy. Comparative Studies in Society and History 59, 1: 96–126.Google Scholar
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Parry, Jonathan and Simpson, Edward. 2010. David Pocock's Contributions and the Legacy of Leavis. Contributions to Indian Sociology 44, 3: 331–59.Google Scholar
Prakash, Gyan. 1999. Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Rabinow, Paul. 1989. French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment. Cambridge: MIT Press.Google Scholar
Rapport, Nigel. 2012. Tensile Nationality: National Identity as an Everyday Way of Being at a Scottish Hospital. Anthropology in Action 19, 1: 60–73.Google Scholar
Reiach, Alan and Hurd, Robert. 1944 [1941]. Building Scotland: A Cautionary Guide. 2d ed. Edinburgh: Saltire Society.Google Scholar
Schwenkel, Christina. 2015. Spectacular Infrastructure and Its Breakdown in Socialist Vietnam. American Ethnologist 42, 3: 520–34.Google Scholar
Scott, James C. 1999. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Steinmetz, George. 2007. The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and West Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
Stoler, Ann. 1995. Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Durham: Duke University Press.Google Scholar
Strathern, Marilyn. 1996. Cutting the Network. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2, 3: 517–35.Google Scholar
Sundaram, Ravi. 2009. Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism. New York: Routledge.Google Scholar
Tomaney, John. 2005. Anglo-Scottish Relations: A Borderlands Perspective. In Miller, William L., ed., Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1900 to Devolution and Beyond. New York: Oxford University Press and the British Academy, 231–48.Google Scholar
Trevor-Roper, Hugh. 2008. The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History. New Haven: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Valverde, Mariana. 2008. Law versus History: Foucault's Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty. In Dillon, Michael and Neal, Andrew W., eds., Foucault on Politics, Security, and War. New York: Palgrave, 135–50.Google Scholar
Zarecor, Kimberly. 2011. A Vision of Socialist Architecture: The Late Career of Jiří Kroha. In Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 177–223.Google Scholar