4,087 research outputs found
Belonging: natural histories of place, identity and home
No full textCanongate's synopsis:
"Reflecting on family, identity and nature, Belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest.
Belonging is a book about how we are held in thrall to elements of our past. It speaks to the importance of attention and reflection, and will encourage us all to look and observe and ask questions of ourselves.
Beautifully written and featuring Amanda Thomson’s artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are."
Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, 2023
Some of the reviews...
Outstanding - ROBERT MACFARLANE
Amanda Thomson’s new book manages to carve out a distinctive niche for itself . . . This is a passionate book and infused with a sense of rootedness - STUART KELLY, The Scotsman
In recent years rural landscapes have turned into battlegrounds, and nature writing has become increasingly polemical. Belonging is a quiet book of questions in a genre full of answers, but it is all the more powerful and beautiful for this - PATRICK GALBRAITH, TLS
One of the best things I have read in ages . . . Quiet and beautiful and powerful - ALYS FOWLER
Thomson writes of the natural in a way I have yet to encounter before. There is no real hoo-haa, no flowery description of which to speak yet somehow, I came away with that ache inside me — that renewed obsession with the world that is only borne of a very particular kind of writing — poetic, loving, raw . . . Like no other - KERRI Ní DOCHARTAIGH, Caught by the River
In strikingly original takes on Scottish history, environmentalism, Black feminist theory, artmaking, list-making, memory, and memoir, Thomson crafts a cadence that is as wise as it is vitally alive. - MARGOT DOUAIHY, author of Scorched Grac
Kathleen Jamie, Chitra Ramaswamy & Amanda Thomson: Antlers of Water - Live Event
No full text‘When we read and write, when we love our fellow creatures, when we walk on the beach, when we just listen and notice, we are not little cogs in the machine, but part of the remedy.’ These luminous words by Kathleen Jamie form part of the introduction to Antlers of Water, an outstanding collection of contemporary Scottish writing about nature and landscape.
The generosity of Jamie’s approach as editor of the collection goes beyond the stellar selection of contributors such as Amy Liptrot, Karine Polwart and Malachy Tallack: she also invokes the agency of readers to make a difference. ‘If, by reading, you are encouraged or confirmed in your love of the natural world, if you’re inspired simply to… look outside, then our job is done.’
In a discussion led by the BBC's Clare English, Jamie is joined by award-winning journalist Chitra Ramaswamy as well as visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson – both contributors to the anthology – to discuss Scotland, landscape and the more-than-human world around us.
This is a live event, with an author Q&A.
Part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival Making Climate Change Personal festival theme
Figures of Speech: Place - Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt
No full textEvent as part of Scotland's Year of Stories 2022, Edinburgh City of Literature & the Scottish Storytelling Centre present figures of speech. " ... Our hosts Amanda Thomson and Roseanne Watt take us on a tour through nature, landscape, community and the language of place, whilst also discussing their own experiences of writing and working in Scotland."
Figures of Speech: place. One of a series of events covering six universal themes (music, friendship, future, love, place, big ideas), each event explores literary blockbusters, hidden gems and modern classics.
Our expert guides will take us on a journey through Scotland’s iconic books and stories, navigating the dazzling array of new voices, and presenting newly commissioned work by artists responding to each theme.
'Let us take you on a journey across the curious contrasts and contradictions that define Scottish literature.
In our first season (May - July), we'll be covering Music, Friendship and Future. On May 20th writer and broadcaster Nicola Meighan and author Arusa Qureshi will be exploring Music, and presenting a newly commissioned dance piece from poet and performer Katie Ailes. Poet Michael Pedersen and author Val McDermid will be diving into Friendship on June 24th, with music from Kim Carnie. And on July 22nd, poet Russell Jones and writer T.L.Huchu will be looking to the Future, with new poetry from Jeda Pearl.
The second season of Figures of Speech (September - November) will take in Love, Place and Big Ideas. On September 23rd Gaelic poet Peter Mackay will talk love with romance writer Jenny Colgan. Visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson will drop a pin in the literary map with a discussion on Place with poet and film maker Roseanne Watt on October 21st (postponed to February '23). The season concludes on St. Andrew’s Day (November 30th) with some Big Ideas from Professor David Farrier with activist and author Jessica Gaitán Johannesson.
We want to welcome as wide an audience as possible and extend this conversation across Edinburgh, Scotland and the world. All the events will be recorded and made available online a week later, and both the live and recorded events will be supported by BSL interpretation.
Joule-Thomson Expansion of Gas-Condensates: Literature review
No full textRecently it was communicated that during gas-condensate production in a North Sea gasfield strong heating of the production stream occurred instead of the expected cooling. This contradictory behaviour called for an investigation of the thermodynamics of these gas condensate reservoirs. It is expected that due to the high pressure and high temperature conditions in these gas-condensate reservoirs (pressures of approximately 1000 bar and temperatures of 100-200 °C), the Joule-Thomson coefficient will have a negative value and thus heating will take place at expansion; this is called the Joule-Thomson inversion effect. To ensure a safe operation and to ensure that downhole and surface equipment is specified according to downhole temperatures, it is required that pressure and temperature profiles can be accurately estimated for future productions. The present work is a literature review of what has been reported in the open literature with respect to the Joule-Thomson inversion effect and the heating of gas-condensates at expansion. Chapter 2 will give a general introduction to the Joule-Thomson effect. In chapter 3 the various methods of how to characterize the inversion curve are described and chapter 4 will discuss the calculation of the temperature changes due to expansion. The gas-condensate systems are dealt with in chapter 5 and finally in chapter 6 a summary is given and different aspects, which are important to predict temperature changes for gas-condensate systems, are considered.Applied SciencesApplied Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibri
Death Writes: Microbursts & The Clearing: a discussion on text, subject and craft with Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson - collaborators on microbursts and with Samantha Clark author of The Clearing
No full textDeath Writes is part of the University of Glasgow's interdisciplinary Arts-Lab, Reading and Writing Death and Dying.
Elizabeth Reeder, Amanda Thomson (collaborators on Microbursts) and Samantha Clark (author of The Clearing) will read and talk about their books and the writing, design and editorial processes they underwent. Both books deal with the intense time of being within parental illness, and consider experiences of illness, mental health, parental death, and various types of grief in ways that weave through and utilise artistic and multi-modal processes
sj-sav-6-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 – for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions
No full textsj-sav-6-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions by Caitlin C Abar, Bonnie Rose Thomson, Allison Miley, Nathan Halter, Shaday Turner, Vanity Jones and Sharon Sarra in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-spv-14-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 – for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions
No full textsj-spv-14-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions by Caitlin C Abar, Bonnie Rose Thomson, Allison Miley, Nathan Halter, Shaday Turner, Vanity Jones and Sharon Sarra in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-txt-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 – for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions
No full textsj-txt-3-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions by Caitlin C Abar, Bonnie Rose Thomson, Allison Miley, Nathan Halter, Shaday Turner, Vanity Jones and Sharon Sarra in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-docx-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 – for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions
No full textsj-docx-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions by Caitlin C Abar, Bonnie Rose Thomson, Allison Miley, Nathan Halter, Shaday Turner, Vanity Jones and Sharon Sarra in Journal of Health Psychology</p
sj-sav-13-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 – for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions
No full textsj-sav-13-hpq-10.1177_13591053241236029 for Active tracking measures: Providing targets for youth alcohol use and health behavior interventions by Caitlin C Abar, Bonnie Rose Thomson, Allison Miley, Nathan Halter, Shaday Turner, Vanity Jones and Sharon Sarra in Journal of Health Psychology</p
- …
