Narratives of deindustrialization, urban decline and failing public housing and the negative outcomes associated with these processes dominate accounts of post-war Scotland, bolstering the interpretation of Scottish exceptionalism in a British context. Within these accounts working people appear as victims of powerful and long-term external forces suffering sustained and ongoing deleterious vulnerabilities in terms of employment, health, and housing. This article challenges this picture by focusing on the first Scottish new town which made space for working people's aspiration and new models of the self manifested in new lifestyles and social relations. Drawing on archival data and oral history interviews, we identify how elective relocation fostered and enabled new forms of identity predicated upon new housing, new social relations, and lifestyle opportunities focused on the family and home and elective social networks no longer determined by traditional class and gender expectations. These findings permit an intervention in the historical debates on post-war housing and social change which go beyond the materialistic experience to deeper and affective dimensions of the new town self.

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1947 年至 2016 年间苏格兰新城的愿望、代理和新自我的产生

去工业化、城市衰落和公共住房失败的叙述以及与这些过程相关的负面结果主导了战后苏格兰的叙述，支持了在英国背景下对苏格兰例外主义的解释。在这些账户中，劳动者似乎是强大而长期的外部力量的受害者，他们在就业、健康和住房方面遭受持续和持续的有害脆弱性。本文通过关注第一个苏格兰新城来挑战这一图景，该城为劳动人民的愿望和在新生活方式和社会关系中体现的新自我模式提供了空间。利用档案数据和口述历史访谈，我们确定了选择性搬迁如何促进和实现基于新住房、新社会关系、和生活方式的机会集中在家庭和家庭以及不再由传统阶级和性别期望决定的选择性社交网络。这些发现允许对战后住房和社会变革的历史辩论进行干预，这些辩论超越了物质体验，进入了新城镇自我的更深层次和情感层面。