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Hardscrabble Heritage: The Ruined Blackhouse and Crofting Landscape as Heritage from below

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  • Iain James McPherson Robertson

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This article explores a particular materialisation of the relationship between landscape, heritage and identity. Understood as heritage from below, the emphasis is on the role of non-elites in the constitutive processes of landscape and the place/space of the past in the present. The landscape at the heart of this study is that of the ruined blackhouse, an intrinsic part and mnemonic of crofting identity in the Scottish Highlands. These quotidian and mundane spaces are constituted by routine habits which, together with the material 'left-behinds' of a past way of life, comprise landmarks to place making from below and within. For members of the crofting community, the blackhouse is understood and experienced as inheritance from the past and source of everyday affectual and sensual entanglements. This rural ruin is thus an intrinsic part of the crofting taskscape, the past drawn into the present as a form of cultural heritage from below.

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  • Iain James McPherson Robertson, 2015. "Hardscrabble Heritage: The Ruined Blackhouse and Crofting Landscape as Heritage from below," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(8), pages 993-1009, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:40:y:2015:i:8:p:993-1009
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2015.1074986
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