In this article Smith argues that for many people Scottish nationalism was a response to an imperialist and exclusionary British nationalism. Autoethnography (a research method) is used to reflect on a conversation the author had with her father-in-law in Dumfries. What do you think of it? Are you convinced? Does the method produce useful evidence?

Smith, A. (2017) 'Relocating the British subject: Ethnographic encounters with identity politics and nationalism during the 2014 Scottish independence referendum', The Sociological Review, 65(1), pp. 54-70. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0081176917693538 (Accessed: 3 April 2024).

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