https://hinesjumpedup.com/bib-giant daily 0.75 2024-08-06 https://hinesjumpedup.com/home daily 1.0 2022-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1559059907758-YMHUVOGTPWHX27Z22OT9/IMG_6292.jpg Scott Hames Sounds Great! Ibrox? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/a3a879e2-7394-4f4b-8686-e14fde45ea2a/IMG_5520-2.jpeg Scott Hames https://hinesjumpedup.com/bib daily 0.75 2024-08-06 https://hinesjumpedup.com/projects daily 0.75 2025-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1596116495133-SCNIET5P0Z1YHFVT720N/col7-tint4-2377.jpg Projects - Scottish Magazines Network https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1754132144997-JYHREF1JHE0HG1SYIKK5/nairncollage.png Projects - Reading Tom Nairn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1649178949752-LF9OIHYXF8B8BABM2GRO/Hamescoversmall.jpg Projects - Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/bdc8bcb6-67fe-49d6-af16-2a633517a814/FNVboeQXoAcDth2-sm.png Projects - Scottish Writing After Devolution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1559057805666-DMYYA0ZN8XPC0YNB03F4/james-kelman-bw.jpg Projects - On James Kelman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/e481505a-38ea-4bbe-b9e6-0779799de6cc/Capture.PNG Projects - Commentary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1559058700282-ZSN0G49LGGAX0JB79KCM/Untitled2.jpg Projects - Past Projects/Recordings https://hinesjumpedup.com/literary-politics daily 0.75 2022-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1617189924130-W8R7APXDI52VWPO8PO7H/Hamescoversmall.jpg Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution https://hinesjumpedup.com/commentary daily 0.75 2023-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/e481505a-38ea-4bbe-b9e6-0779799de6cc/Capture.PNG Commentary - Exhausted optimism: devolution as cultural condition A New Statesman essay (March 2022) extending arguments from the devolution monograph to the contemporary scene. “At times it feels as if the whole ethos and terrain of ‘the literary’ has been incorporated into the nation’s official PR, and there are few signs of dissent. Some argue – especially on the unionist side of Scottish politics – that the cultural sector has been ‘captured’ by cuddly nationalism. But it’s more the case that hegemonic Scottish nationalism has come to articulate itself as culture, an enterprise of imagined harmonies and self-actualisation. Projecting the First Minister as the peer of Booker Prize-winners hints at the realisation of the nation’s own creative potential for open-hearted prosperity and international esteem. Here ‘culture’ operates as the ‘domain of reconciliation’ in which the nation’s inner conflicts can be finessed into manageable accord, preparing the ‘consensual ground for the state form of representative democracy’, as David Lloyd and Paul Thomas put it in Culture and the State .” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1620920174290-2GNX9TTKT84388WC2MSS/image.png Commentary - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://hinesjumpedup.com/swad daily 0.75 2023-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/93c23432-ea96-487d-a80f-4f734b92b7a1/FNVboeQXoAcDth2.png Scottish Writing After Devolution+ - Make it stand out Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New https://hinesjumpedup.com/scottish-magazines-network daily 0.75 2022-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1596116664853-NCBVF3T33WKP0II50GHJ/col7-tint4-2377.jpg Scottish Magazines Network - Scottish Magazines Network I lead the Scottish Magazines Network, an AHRC research network partnered with the National Library of Scotland (CI: Malcolm Petrie, St Andrews). The network brings together scholars of Scottish literature, history, politics and publishing to explore — and ‘re-circulate’ — independent magazine culture of the post-1960s period. Through its events, podcasts, blogs and publications — including the showcase magazine FLYTE — we aim to stimulate new public interest in these cultural and political magazines, and their role in shaping the Scotland of today. An edited volume co-edited with Eleanor Bell and Malcom Petrie is in preparation. For further details, see the project website or @ScotMagsNet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/ce8768a0-1eae-4f8e-9fbf-ddddf29409e4/chapman_full_052.jpg Scottish Magazines Network - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://hinesjumpedup.com/past-projects daily 0.75 2024-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/7f05c47b-dc34-4ce4-8a11-5aa2b4d97687/IMG_2878.jpg Past Projects - De-Localising Dialect With Professor Maria Fusco (PI, Dundee), I ran an AHRC Research Network on ‘De-Localising Dialect’ in 2019-20. This project cut across literature, performance, theory and linguistics, to explore practices and possibilities of ‘dialect’ which go beyond the verbal embodiment of roots and origins. Instead, we conceived dialect as style, method and creative practice. Three events (in Glasgow, Newcastle, London) featured work by and with Raman Mundair, Harry Josephine Giles, Lisa Robertson and Denise Riley. These events explored ways of viewing — and ‘doing’ — dialect against its own deep associations with locality and social rootedness, and attending to its qualities of disruption, mobility, experiment and autonomy. Some further details of the project are here. In October 2017 I gave a related talk on ‘Dialect and/as Stylisation: Recovering Vernacular Aesthetics’ for Maria’s DIALECTY project. Audio of that talk is below (starts at 2.35), and here are the slides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/18304986-e2bd-485b-95b2-1d674f6c13ca/RS-49-1991cover-double.jpg Past Projects - Narrating Scottish Devolution Supported by the British Academy, Narrating Scottish Devolution was a research project exploring the different ways in which devolution has been explained, understood and made culturally meaningful in Scotland. Workshop discussions in 2014-15 among writers, critics, politicians and historians were particularly focused in the idea of ‘cultural devolution’ — the notion that Scottish writers and artists paved the way for the politicians, — and its influence in post-1999 governance and literary culture. Our main findings were published in a journal article for C21 Literature. The workshop sessions were also recorded. In the player below you can hear a 30m podcast based on these recordings (and additional archival material), entitled ‘Nobody’s Dream: Stories of Scottish Devolution’ (with production help from Peter Geoghegan). This podcast was featured in the Guardian's Scotland blog in February 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1559072840387-9AI5ODNTA25AZASBHZGB/ifs.jpg Past Projects - If Scotland: Posting 2014 A few weeks before the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence, we held a two-day conference to imagine how the referendum might be remembered by future historians. Highlights (fully archived here, including video) include commissioned youth theatre with the BBC’s Generation 2014, and debates between writers, journalists, historians and constitutional experts. Conference proceedings were published in 2016 as a special number of the Journal of Scottish Thought (co-edited with Adrian Hunter). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1559058936298-U8GCL12LYKORH5PDUO9Q/Untitled2.jpg Past Projects - Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence Published in late 2012, this anthology invited 27 writers based in Scotland to explore the question of independence, noting the commonplace view that writers and artists had made devolution (and thus the referendum) possible. A range of media controversies ensued, with writers from the book contributing to a number of highly engaging events throughout 2013-14. In September 2019, I organised an event reflecting on Indyref: Culture and Politics Five Years On. In September 2024, I uploaded the book’s introduction here (PDF). https://hinesjumpedup.com/james-kelman daily 0.75 2025-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1559057805666-DMYYA0ZN8XPC0YNB03F4/james-kelman-bw.jpg Kelman Projects - James Kelman and Lyric Freedom: Language, Action, Silence I have a long-term monograph project drawing together some earlier essays and ideas on James Kelman, with a focus on lyric action and subjectivity. Kelman aligns his work with American Realist and European Existentialist traditions; both strongly informed by the Romantic valorisation of the personal, vernacular and quotidian. Viewed from this angle, Kelman’s fiction of liberty, disenchantment and the swallowed cry of protest may be productively linked to Romantic political and aesthetic ideals, and to the linguistic philosophy of ‘the Romantic performative’ (Angela Esterhammer). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/6d1b555b-8448-495c-bd29-190deb4aafc8/jkbib.jpg Kelman Projects - James Kelman Bibliography This Kelman bibliography isn’t routinely updated so please email me with things to add. My own writing on Kelman includes: Hames, Scott. 2024. “Interview with James Kelman.” In All We Have Is the Story: Selected Interviews 1973-2022, 242-273. Oakland, CA, PM Press. [https://www.stir.ac.uk/research/hub/publication/2035406] Hames, Scott. 2022. “James Kelman and Everyone Else.” Honest Ulsterman, February 2022. [https://humag.co/features/scott-hames] Hames, Scott. 2016. “‘Maybe Singing into Yourself’: James Kelman, Inner Speech and Vocal Communion.” In Community in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Scott Lyall, 196-213. Leiden, Brill. [http://hdl.handle.net/1893/22942] Hames, Scott. 2010. “Kelman’s Art-Speech.” In Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman, edited by Scott Hames, 86-98. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2852] Hames, Scott. 2009. “Eyeless in Glasgow: James Kelman’s Existential Milton.” Contemporary Literature 50.3: 496-527. [https://doi.org/10.1353/cli.0.0073] Hames, Scott. 2007. “Dogged Masculinities: Male Subjectivity and Socialist Despair in Kelman and McIlvanney.” Scottish Studies Review 8.1: 67-87. [http://hdl.handle.net/1893/837] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/4c49ef57-8f3d-4043-b0e3-b324734cd94b/ECJK-cover.jpg Kelman Projects - Edinburgh Companion to James Kelman Edited collection published in 2010: James Kelman is one of the most important Scottish writers now living. His fiction is widely acclaimed, and widely caricatured. His art declares war on stereotypes, but is saddled with plenty of its own. This book attempts to disentangle Kelman's writing from his reputation, clarifying his literary influences and illuminating his political commitments. It is the first book to cover the full range and depth of Kelman's work, explaining his position within genres such as the short story and the polemical essay, and tracing his interest in anti-colonial politics and existential thought. Essays by leading experts combine lucid accounts of the heated debates surrounding Kelman's writing, with a sharp focus on the effects and innovations of that writing itself. Kelman's own reception by reviewers and journalists is examined as a shaping factor in the development of his career. Chapters situate Kelman's work in critical contexts ranging from masculinity to vernacular language, cover influences from Chomsky to Kafka, and pursue the implications of Kelman's rhetoric from Glasgow localism to 'World English'. CONTENTS 1. Early Kelman: Influences and Experiments (Paul Shanks) 2. How late it was, how late and Literary Value (Mary McGlynn) 3. Narrative Limits: Kelman's Later Novels (Peter Boxall) 4. Kelman and the Short Story (Adrian Hunter) 5. Kelman’s Critical and Polemical Writing (Mia Carter) 6. Kelman's Drama (David Archibald) 7. Kelman's Glasgow Sentence (Cairns Craig) 8. Kelman's Art-Speech (Scott Hames) 9. Kelman and World English (Michael Gardiner) 10. Kelman and Masculinity (Carole Jones) 11. Kelman and the Existentialists (Laurence Nicoll) https://hinesjumpedup.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-04-05 https://hinesjumpedup.com/details daily 0.75 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b44e4e5365f02ee34e659ec/1538155157102-ZGOOJ4QG9X9APSD76Z4C/Stocksy_comp_1887532.jpg Details https://hinesjumpedup.com/tom-nairn daily 0.75 2026-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cec3046c39834000119d714/1754132144997-JYHREF1JHE0HG1SYIKK5/nairncollage.png Tom Nairn - Tom Nairn: Writing, Politics, Scotland I’m currently working on the first book-length study of Tom Nairn, modern Scotland’s most influential and elusive public intellectual. Under contract with Edinburgh University Press. Some ideas for the book are rehearsed in 'Tom Nairn as Essayist: Romantic Negativity and Critical Imagination', Scottish Literary Review 17.2 (Autumn/Winter 2025) http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37865 Tom Nairn (1932-2023) was one of the most consequential Scottish writers of the twentieth century. At the news of his death, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon paid tribute to ‘one of the greatest thinkers, political theorists and intellectuals that Scotland has ever produced’. Though he led no movement or school, and spent nearly all of his working life outside the university system, his fame is unmatched by any Scottish scholar of his generation. Yet there is no book on Nairn’s achievement, which has been obscured by the range of clashing traditions in which it was recognised. His critical reception has been fragmented across scholarly and political fields – from political philosophy to sociology and cultural studies; from the New Left to Scottish Nationalism – which find Nairn’s influence both undeniable and somewhat awkward. This has inhibited his recognition as a great writer and essayist, the unifying thread of his spirited engagement in each of these worlds. Nairn’s openness to new ideas has also been costly. He did much of his best work as a ‘co-thinker’, theorising in tandem with figures including Perry Anderson, Stephen Maxwell, Anthony Barnett and Ernest Gellner, and frequently revised his views and prophecies. Never a line-holding party intellectual, Nairn faced hostility within every tradition in which he made a major contribution. I suggest has more in common with a romantic philosopher-journalist – itinerant, flamboyant, fiercely independent – than the political and cultural leaders he inspired. From British constitutional history to studies of modern monarchy and the case for Scottish independence, Nairn’s influence is at once pervasive and elusive. But his writing itself is consistently inventive, vitalising and often hilarious. Focused on his prose and drawing on unpublished interviews and archival research, this book has three aims: to illuminate the distinctive qualities of Nairn’s writing, and its guiding sensibility, the better to grasp its importance to his wide and contrary influence; to centre Nairn’s own thinking and sensibility within the various movements in which it made an impact; and to grasp Nairn’s complex political career in the light of his primary talent: that of an essayist and critic.