Re-stor(y)ing North West Sutherland, Scotland
Abstract This paper focuses on two high profile projects initiated by communities in north west Sutherland as part of Highland 2007. The first concerns the Ceannabeinne Township Trail near Durness which involves the telling of the story of reistance to the Clearances of the nineteenth century. The second, Summer in the Straths, retraces the route of the Summer Walkers and highlights their contribution to social and economic life in the Highlands. The paper argues that the projects remap the land in ways that suggest an alternative imaginary to that aligned with processes of dispossession that have for so long defined social and economic practice in the area. Literally and figuratively, the projects map openings which challenge the norms through which the land is frequently cast.