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Classified Index of Articles on Land Reform
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319. 2023,
The
Dick Balharry Memorial Talk 2023: 'Land Reform, Access, and the Renewal of
Relationship', Ramblers Scotland, with appended notes
'Outdoor Access in Scotland: on the Celtic Tradition' by Rennie McOwan
from 1994. Video of my talk
here.
315, 2023, The Question of Community and 'Rewilding', Bella
Caledonia, 31 January.
PDF version here.
308. 2022, How the 'People's Republic of Eigg' lit a fire under land reform in
Scotland, The National, 10 April.
PDF version here.
302. 2021, 'I've never
known you be so bad before' - Land, Community and Climate Change,
The Angus Macleod Memorial Lecture 2021, Islands Book Trust.
Alternatively, view lecture
Lecture Video, starting 9 mins in, delivered at the Kinloch
Community Hub, Balallan, Isle of Lewis, 21 Oct.
290. 2019, Papua Visitors Feast at Croirgerraidh,
Lochs News,
Issue 17, August, p. 6.
289. 2019, Report of West Papua
Province study tour to Hebrides, July.
282. 2018, Obituary of
Tom Forsyth of Scoraig - Crofter and Pioneer of Eigg Land Reform, The
Herald, 31 August, p. 22 (link to the newspaper's online version
here).
281. 2018, Keynote
Address for the 25th Anniversary of the Assynt Crofters' Trust,
The Assynt Crofters' Trust, Stoer, Sutherland, 2 July (pdf of original posting
on their website).
280. 2018, Imagine
Life Without the Interconnector: We can take back control (Isle of Lewis
wind farm debate), The Stornoway Gazette 28 June and expanded version as
a guest on Katie Laing's blog 30 June, see at that link.
273, 2017, Promised
Land: Why Ulva? Why Land Reform?, Bella Caledonia supplement in The National,
2 December, pp. 1-7. Also on Bella's website
here.
271, 2017, Some Contributions of Geopoetics to Modern Scottish Land
Consciousness,
Scottish Centre for
Geopoetics, Conference
proceedings "Expressing the Earth", Seil Island, Scotland;
PDF copy of web
publication.
270, 2017, "Foreword"
to Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust land reform 20th anniversary brochure,
Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust, pp. 1-2.
260, 2016, Poacher's Pilgrimage: an
Island Journey, Birlinn, Edinburgh, hardback, ISBN 978 178027
361 7, £20, 339 pp. + xxi.
259, 2016, "Quando o Bolso
Enche e o Espírito se Esvazia"
- Interview by the Brazilian Jesuit agricultural journal
(Portuguese with English version at the back), IHU: Instituto
Humanitas Unisinos, by
João Vitor Santos, tradução Moisés Sbardelotto, No. 485/XVI, 16 May.
255.
2015, Canadian Quakers Yearly Meeting Lecture - Decolonising Land and Soul: A
Quaker Testimony, The Sunderland P. Gardner Lecture 2015, Canadian Yearly
Meeting, Ottawa, 37pp.
250. 2015. The Highland Clearances on the Isles of Lewis and Harris from
the living memories of Donald J Macleod (b. 1934) of Enaclete (Uig) and Bridge
of Don, compiled and web published by Alastair McIntosh.
247. 2015. Report on the Climate Change Study Visit to Scotland by Planners
from Papua Province, Indonesia, Centre For Human Ecology,
March 2015, co-authored with Vérène Nicolas & Sibongile Pradhan, 13 pp..
245. 2015. Consultation Response to Scottish Government on Land Reform,
Centre for Human Ecology, 10 February 2015.
234. 2014, "Foreword" (25 pp) to the new edition of
On the Other Side of Sorrow: Nature and People by James Hunter, Birlinn Ltd,
Edinburgh.
221. 2013, Island Spirituality: Spiritual Values of Lewis and Harris, Islands
Book Trust, Kershader, 184 pp, price £10. As out of print from 2015, now in
free PDF
download.
220. 2013, Keynote Address,
The Future is Local, Scottish Community Alliance with Scottish
Government, 26 April.
218b. 2012, Visitors
from Papua (Indonesia), The Crofter, September, p. 25. (Also, from
2013, a report in
Indonesian in a Papua newspaper, Cenderawasia Pos, 9 Feb 2013, on our
meeting with Provincial Government secretary and BAPPEDA (provincial business
unit) in Djayapura, West Papua, Indonesia).
217. 2012, The
'Sacredness' of Natural Sites and Their Recovery: Iona, Harris and Govan in
Scotland, in Mallarach,
J.-M., Papayannis, T. and Väisänen, R. (eds), The Diversity of Sacred
Lands in Europe: Proceedings of the Third Workshop of the Delos Initiative –
Inari/Aanaar 2010. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN and Vantaa, Finland: Metsähallitus Natural Heritage Services
- free PDF of complete volume from IUCN
here.
214. 2011-12, O Donald Trump, Woe Donald Trump
(poetry), EarthLines, Issue 1, May 2012, pp. 43-46 (first posted on Bella
Caledonia blog 2011).
204. 2009. The Political Theology of Modern Scottish Land Reform, with Rutger
Henneman (1), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 3/3,
340-375.
203. 2009. Compassion (a reflection on the crofting, community and the psyche of
the world), Bella Caledonia, September 09 (online journal ... or
click
here for Word version).
197. 2008, Land,
Identity, School: Exploring Women's Identity with Land in Scotland Through the
Experience of Boarding School (PDF), with Chriss Bull (1) and Colin Clark (3),
Oral History:
Journal of the Oral History Society, Autumn 2008, Vol. 36:2, 75 - 88,
Autumn 2008.
196. 2008, Rekindling Community: Connecting
People, Environment and Spirituality, Schumacher Briefing No. 15, Green
Books. ISBN 978-1-900322-38-6.
195. 2008, Some
Contributions of Liberation Theology to Community Empowerment in Scottish Land
Reform 1991 - 2003, (4 MB PDF) Thesis for the Degree of Doctor of
Philosophy (PhD) by Published Works undertaken with the Academy of Irish
Cultural Heritages, Faculty of Arts, University of Ulster.
192. 2008, Submission to Scottish Government's Rural Housing Inquiry, 24
March 2008.
191. 2008, 'Sea Change for
Fishing,' in Change and continuity in Scotland's fishing communities, Economic & Social Research Council, ESRC Seminar Series, 17-20.
189. 2008, Engaging the
Powers of Walter Wink - an Activist's Testimony, (PDF file) in Enigmas
and Powers: Engaging the Work of Walter Wink for Classroom, Church and World,
ed. D. Seiple & Frederick W. Weidmann, Princeton Theological Monograph Series
No. 79, 101-112.
188. 2007,
Archive of Scottish Land Reform Audio Broadcasts with Alastair McIntosh during
the 1990s, listen here to 9 digitised broadcasts that reflect a little
of the social history of the modern Scottish land reform movement.
187. 2007, Guest
Editorial, The Participant (PDF File), Scottish Natural Heritage,
Planning Aid & Royal Town Planning Institute, No. 4, 2.
181.
2006, Land Reform: The People Find Their Voice, Reforesting Scotland,
Issue 34, pp. 10-12.
179.
2006, Wild Scots and Buffoon History - Review Article of Michael Fry's
"Wild Scots: Four Hundred Years of Highland History", The Land, Issue 1, pp. 7 - 10.
167.
2005, Chronique
d'une Alliance: Peuples autochtones et société civil face à la mondialisation,
(the abridged French translation of Soil and Soul), Editions Yves Michel,
Paris, ISBN 2 913492 30 4, €22, 351pp.. Ce
blog est destiné aux lecteurs d'Alastair McIntosh afin qu'ils puissent se connaître,
se faire connaître et s'exprimer sur les sujets abordés dans le livre.
164.
2004,
Land
Reform,
a
90
second
"Pressure
Point"
broadcast
on
Scottish
TV's
Politics
Now,
transmitted
16
September
2004.
Click
here
to
read
text,
or
if
you
have
Windows
Media
Player
click
this
video
link
163.
2004,
Land
Reform
...
the
Next
Stages,
The
Crofter
–
The
Journal
of
the
Scottish
Crofting
Foundation,
No.
63,
May
2004,
9
–
10.
160.
2004,
The
Real
Price
of
Property,
Third
Way, Jan/Feb,
Vol.
27
No.
1,
22
-
25.
156.
2003,
The
4
Stages
of
Land
Reform
in
Scotland,
The
Hebridean,
Stornoway,
2
Oct,
pp.
8-9,
&
at
press.
155.
2003, Power to the People ( Wind Energy & Land Value Market Capitalisation),
The Hebridean,
Stornoway,
21 August, p. 7.
154.
2003,
The Lie of the Land (Land
Reform
on
Eigg
Update), The Hebridean, Stornoway, 14 August, p. 7.
149.
2003, Towards a Sustainable Community Housing Policy for Scotland, distributed
discussion
paper, July 7, 7 pp..
136.
2002, It's all about putting people in their place, text of address
to the Rural Planning Symposium for Duhallow, published in The Irish
Examiner, Cork, 21 June 2002. Also published in revised form on
Open Democracy's website, with links to many key phrases, as Soil
and Soul: Lessons from Ireland, 2002.
135.
2002, Roots for Living, occasional column in The Big Issue in Scotland, with Vérène
Nicolas, on diverse social, environmental and spiritual issues. This
link
takes
you
to
the
index.
129.
2001,
Land
reform
threatened
by
the
"Pavarotti
Effect",
West
Highland
Free
Press,
9
November,
10.
128.
2001,
Land
Reform
and
National
Identity,
Le
Monde Diplomatique, Paris, No. 572-48, November, p. 6, co-authored with Vérène
Nicolas.
Published
in
French
translation
as
Quand l'Ecosse
Distribue
les Terres: Vent de Réformes Après la Conquête de L'Autonomie, in English
original,
London,
p.
13
(with
The
Guardian
Weekly
by
subscription
and
on
website)
as
Scotland
plc - Land Reform and National Identity, and in German/Swiss editions as Das
Geheimnis des wahren Schotten.
127.
2001, Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power, Aurum Press,
London, ISBN 1 85410 802 6, £17.99 hardback, 336pp..
116.
2000, Healing Nationhood: Essays on Spirituality, Place and Community,
including Land, Power & National Identity commissioned by the Russian
Academy of Sciences, Curlew Productions, Kelso, with the Centre for
Human Ecology and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 144pp., ISBN 1 900259 95
8, £7.50.
112.
2000, The Case for God: Carbeth Hutters’ Feudal Defence Against Eviction, Ecotheology,
Sheffield Academic Press, Issue 8, 86-110.
106.
1999, Land, Power & National Identity: Modern Russia and the Spirituality
of Nationhood – a View from Scotland, Russian Academy of Sciences
Department of Economics (English and Russian translation per Dr Dmitry Lvov,
Head of Department), Moscow, 89pp.; reprinted as lead item in Healing
Nationhood (Curlew Productions), 2000, see above.
100.
1999, Liberation Theology in Scottish Community Empowerment, in Popular
Education and Social Action in Scottish Communities, Ian Martin, Jim
Crowther and Mae Shaw, (eds.), National Institute of Adult Continuing Education,
Leicester, 205-215.
95. 1998,
Address to the Scottish Landowners’ Federation, 10 June 1998,
edited versions as End to Lording It, Evening News, Edinburgh, 17 June,
10; Isles of Acrimony, The Guardian (Society), 22 July, 4-5; Our Land
Belongs to Us, The Big Issue, Glasgow, 6 August, 10-11; full text in my Healing
Nationhood, Curlew Productions, 2000, 107-111 (see above).
86.
1997, Colonised Land; Colonised Mind: People of the island of Eigg Celebrate
their Freedom, Resurgence,
184, 28-30.
82.
1996, Maintaining the bonds of the island’s core community (Eigg), The
Scotsman,
13-12-96, 18.
61.
1995, Echoes down the glen of landed power, Reforesting
Scotland, 13, 26-28.
Now also in PDF at the link.
56.
1994, (287KB) The Scottish Highlands in colonial and psychodynamic perspective, Interculture:
International Journal of Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Research,
XXVII:3, 2-36, (with Andy Wightman (2) and Dan Morgan (3)). Traduction
française (228KB): Les Highlands
écossais dans une perspective coloniale et psychodynamique.
Now also in PDF - on the linked pages.
42.
1992, Open letter to Keith Schellenberg, “Laird” of Eigg, Reforesting Scotland, 7, 30-31, (with Tom Forsyth (2) and Bob
Harris (3)).
41.
1992, A ‘collector’s item’ or community ownership - the Isle of Eigg
debate, Edinburgh Review, 88, 158-162.
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