Academic article: On “Cultural Darning and Mending”: A Creative Response to Ceist an Fhearainn / The Land Question in the Gàidhealtachd
Together with my long-term collaborator Raghnaid Sandilands we contributed an article to the a special issue of the journal Scottish Affairs: Scotland’s Gàidhealtachd Futures edited by Iain MacKinnon and James Oliver:
“Mairi McFadyen and Raghnaid Sandilands’ writing exemplifies a layered account and multidimensional, future-oriented approach to land and culture for transformative thinking and doing in the Gàidhealtachd. The authors work in collaboration on projects of what they term creative cultural activism, which enfold Ceist an Fhearainn / The Land Question into inter-related layers of language, ecology, language, place, kin and community. In their contribution they describe their ‘convivial’ approach to the creation of environmentally and socially just futures: they call this ‘cultural darning and mending’; one which ‘invites people to take agency in their own location and place, entering into an ethical and reciprocal relationship with the land, its past, people and their stories.”