Globalising Welsh Studies : Decolonising history, heritage, society and culture

A collection of multidisciplinary essays that place Wales in a global context.

Globalising Welsh Studies is the first offering in the University of Wales Press’s new series Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World. This introductory edited text provides a theoretical and conceptual basis for the series, engaging with the key perspectives and concepts that underpin the theme of the series and acting to cohere and consolidate race and ethnicity within Welsh studies.

OPEN ACCESSTo read the PDF of Globalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society and culture for free, follow the link belowGlobalising Welsh Studies: Decolonising history, heritage, society and cultureThis book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative. Interest in race and ethnicity research in Wales has grown apace in the last decade, opening up wider debates about the nature, focus and content of what collectively is called Welsh Studies. Across a range of disciplines, we are witnessing not only a ‘global turn’ placing Wales more substantively within a plethora of global interconnections, but also a ‘decolonial turn’ that involves the questioning of disciplinary traditions and knowledge production, and highlighting the colonial legacy that shapes academic pursuits. In the present text, we explore the development of Welsh Studies through the lens of race/ethnicity. Contributors from history, heritage studies, literature, film, policy, social and cultural studies offer case analyses adopting new perspectives, theoretical routes and methodological innovations, with the aim of illustrating aspects of the decolonising of knowledge production.