Sellar, Patrick (1780–1851), sheep farmer and agent of highland clearances

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Richards
Keyword(s):  
Sheep Farmer ◽  
Highland Clearances

scholarly journals Impact of Flock Health Clubs

Livestock ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 301-307
Author(s):  
Nicola Noble ◽  
Francesca Occhiuto ◽  
Fiona Lovatt ◽  
Marion Johnson ◽  
Wendy Jones ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Veterinary Profession ◽  
Health Clubs ◽  
Sheep Farmer ◽  
Veterinary Surgeon ◽  
The Impact

Sheep farming is an important part of UK agriculture with significantly more breeding females than either the pig or cattle sectors. Whether grazing alongside arable rotations or utilising the marginal uplands, sheep farms arguably play a key role that is embedded within UK rural society. However, research led by University of Nottingham has identified various challenges and barriers that have affected relationships between UK sheep farmers and the veterinary profession. In response to these findings, Flock Health Clubs were developed as an initiative that aimed for improved and cost-effective sheep farmer–veterinary interaction. We report quantitative and qualitative data that assess the impact of Flock Health Clubs and indeed show tangible improvements in both farmer–veterinary surgeon relationships and measures of flock health and welfare.

Pissing On the Past: The Highland Clearances, Effigial Resistance and the Everyday Politics of the Urinal

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Saunders ◽  
Rhys Crilley
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
Highland Clearances ◽  
Hautes Terres ◽  
Public Toilets

When and where one can urinate is increasingly politicised around the globe. As an example of bio-political power, the provision, regulation and access to public toilets reflects larger structures in any given society. However, there is another side to micturition, that is the use of urine as a manifestation of bodily power over another/others. This article analyses the politics of the urinal through a close reading of the men’s toilet in The Lismore pub in Partick, Scotland, thus bringing together these two threads via the concept of everyday effigial resistance. In our interrogation of a politicised urinal that asks users to ‘piss’ on historical figures associated with the Highland Clearances, we aim to push International Relations to follow Enloe’s call for the study of ‘mundane practices… and the most intimate spaces’ by considering the most banal aspects of the human condition as part of its remit. Our case study serves as an explicit political intervention, one which through its geographic and geopolitical scales makes an argument for engaging with the mundane, vernacular and vulgar in everyday IR. Pisser sur le passé : les dédouanements des hautes terres, la résistance à l’effigie et la politique quotidienne de l’urinoir

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