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The Memory Work of Welsh Heritage: Multidimensional landscapes of a multinational Wales

Rhodes, Mark A, II
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1537-3515
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555693473757734

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2019, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Geography.
The connection between memory, identity, and landscape transcends much of human experience. When nations engage in the creation of memories and landscapes, the resulting memory work upon identity and the narratives and discourses of a nation can influence sense of belonging and other cultural criteria. This research identifies three national institutions of heritage and memory work in Wales to track these processes through a landscape analysis. I place the role of the Welsh Government, minority voices, and economic processes within the broader economic, historical, cultural, and political landscape of Wales. Through a series of successes and failures, some Welsh national heritage institutions have expanded their understanding of Wales to include the pluralistic historiography which guided and continues to impact the development and composition of Welsh society. It is also my hope that this study presents a viable extension to landscape analysis through a transoptic understanding which includes, yet reaches beyond the material into the sonic, experiential, or even spiritual. In Wales, this transoptic and multicultural understanding of Welsh history, memory, landscape, and identity may illuminate future pathways of inclusion and empowerment throughout the nation’s minority populations. Wales, as a nation embedded with its industrial, colonial, and linguistic legacies, faces significant challenges as it navigates the rapidly shifting geopolitics of Europe, the United Kingdom, and its own heritage institutions. This demonstrated transoptic understanding of landscape may be applied not only to Wales’ complicated geographies but to those nations and peoples facing similar challenging memory work across Europe and the globe.
Chris Post (Advisor)
Jennifer Johnstone (Committee Member)
David Kaplan (Committee Member)
Joshua Stacher (Committee Member)
James Tyner (Committee Member)
425 p.
Ethnic Studies; European History; European Studies; Folklore; Geography; History; Mining; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Museum Studies; Museums; Music; Sociolinguistics; Urban Planning
Landscape; Memory; Memory Work; Wales; Heritage; Museums; Festivals; Industrial Heritage; United Kingdom; Cardiff; Eisteddfod; Welsh; Capital; National Museum Wales; Performance; Identity; Discourse; Soundscape; Butetown; Immigration;

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  • Rhodes, II, M. A. (2019). The Memory Work of Welsh Heritage: Multidimensional landscapes of a multinational Wales [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555693473757734

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rhodes, II, Mark. The Memory Work of Welsh Heritage: Multidimensional landscapes of a multinational Wales . 2019. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555693473757734.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rhodes, II, Mark. "The Memory Work of Welsh Heritage: Multidimensional landscapes of a multinational Wales ." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555693473757734

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