Resumen de Highland Gatherings, Balmorality, and the Glamour of Backwardness
The argument presented here is that cultural studies interventions on sport in British social development are parochial and have grown out of a certain reading of Gramsci’s work. The work of Tom Naim provides the basis for (a) a substantive discussion on the relationship between the Scottish Highland Gatherings, the monarchy, and Highland culture during the Victorian period, and (b) developing a nationalist/socialist reading of Gramsci and consequently a nationalist/socialist critique of cultural studies accounts of sport in Britain.
