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Alastair McIntosh (born 1955) is a writer, academic and activist, his most well known work is Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power. 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
He was brought up in Leurbost on the Isle of Lewis. He is involved with Scottish land reform especially on Eigg and campaigned successfully against the Harris superquarry. He is a fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, an Honorary Fellow of the Schumacher Society and helped to setup the Govan based GalGael Trust of which he is Treasurer and a non-executive director. In 2006 he was appointed to the honorary position of Visiting Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Strathclyde (Department of Geography & Sociology) - the first such post in human ecology in a Scottish university. Leurbost, (Scottish Gaelic: Liurbost) is a village in the North Lochs district of Lewis. ... Visit and Contribute to the Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia. ... Land reform (also agrarian reform although that can have a broader meaning) is the government-initiated or government-backed redistribution of — i. ... Island of Eigg, as seen from a ferry An Sgurr Eigg is one of the Small Isles, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. ... An Cliseam from the Abhainn Mharaig, just off the main road to Lewis. ... Ernst Friedrich Fritz Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker with a professional background as a statistician and economist in Britain. ... Govan is a district and former burgh in the southwestern part of the Scottish city of Glasgow. ... The University of Strathclyde is a university in Glasgow, Scotland. ... Human ecology is an academic discipline that deals with the relationship between humans and their (natural) environment. ... List of universities in Scotland is a list of universities in Scotland. ...
"McIntosh describes the miracles that can happen when there is a recovery of the mythological underpinnings of a culture's psyche, as well as the feminine force of a people's soul and intuition bonded to the sacred landscape of place....
McIntosh is able to leave one foot firmly planted in the old ways of a native Celtic people and the other slap bang in the middle of scholarly argumentation thereby bridging the great divide between poetry and science.
AlastairMcIntosh is a Scottish academic and activist.
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