This highly readable book, is a unique, ethnographic study of
devolution and Scottish politics as well as party political
activism more generally. Available in paperback for the first time,
it explores how Conservative Party activists who had opposed
devolution and the movement for a Scottish Parliament during the
1990s attempted to mobilise politically following their
annihilation at the 1997 General Election. It draws on fieldwork
conducted in Dumfries and Galloway - a former stronghold for the
Scottish Tories - to describe how senior Conservatives worked from
the assumption that they had endured their own 'crisis' in
representation. The material consequences of this crisis included
losses of financial and other resources, legitimacy and local
knowledge for the Scottish Conservatives. This book
ethnographically describes the processes, practices and
relationships that Tory Party activists sought to enact during the
2003 Scottish and local government elections. Its central argument
is that, having asserted that the difficulties they faced
constituted problems of knowledge, Conservative activists cast to
the geographical and institutional margins of Scotland became
'banal' activists. Believing themselves to be lacking in the data
and information necessary for successful mobilisation during
Parliamentary elections, local Tory Party strategists attempted to
address their knowledge 'crisis' by burying themselves in paperwork
and petty bureaucracy. -- .
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