Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler Colonialism from the Margins
A necessary examination of Wales and its Patagonian settlement Y Wladfa through a decolonial lens.

Inspired by decolonial thinking, Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia challenges romantic images of Y Wladfa, the Welsh Patagonian settlement founded in 1865. Drawing on archival sources written in Spanish, Welsh, and English, it exposes the complex human relationships of this settler colony and disrupts the myth of Welsh-Indigenous friendship by foregrounding Indigenous experience and revealing underrepresented accounts in the record. A newly developed framework applies three logics—possession, racialization/barbarization, and assimilation—to make sense of settler colonialism in Patagonia and to debate Wales’s complex position as both colonized and colonizer. A new analysis of contemporary cultural products (television, film, textbooks) further demonstrates how the romantic view continues to shape racial stereotypes today, concluding that such settler—origin countries as Wales are vital sites of decolonial debate.
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Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler Colonialism from the Margins
A necessary examination of Wales and its Patagonian settlement Y Wladfa through a decolonial lens.

Inspired by decolonial thinking, Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia challenges romantic images of Y Wladfa, the Welsh Patagonian settlement founded in 1865. Drawing on archival sources written in Spanish, Welsh, and English, it exposes the complex human relationships of this settler colony and disrupts the myth of Welsh-Indigenous friendship by foregrounding Indigenous experience and revealing underrepresented accounts in the record. A newly developed framework applies three logics—possession, racialization/barbarization, and assimilation—to make sense of settler colonialism in Patagonia and to debate Wales’s complex position as both colonized and colonizer. A new analysis of contemporary cultural products (television, film, textbooks) further demonstrates how the romantic view continues to shape racial stereotypes today, concluding that such settler—origin countries as Wales are vital sites of decolonial debate.
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Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler Colonialism from the Margins

Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler Colonialism from the Margins

by Lucy Taylor
Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler Colonialism from the Margins

Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia: Settler Colonialism from the Margins

by Lucy Taylor

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A necessary examination of Wales and its Patagonian settlement Y Wladfa through a decolonial lens.

Inspired by decolonial thinking, Global Politics of Welsh Patagonia challenges romantic images of Y Wladfa, the Welsh Patagonian settlement founded in 1865. Drawing on archival sources written in Spanish, Welsh, and English, it exposes the complex human relationships of this settler colony and disrupts the myth of Welsh-Indigenous friendship by foregrounding Indigenous experience and revealing underrepresented accounts in the record. A newly developed framework applies three logics—possession, racialization/barbarization, and assimilation—to make sense of settler colonialism in Patagonia and to debate Wales’s complex position as both colonized and colonizer. A new analysis of contemporary cultural products (television, film, textbooks) further demonstrates how the romantic view continues to shape racial stereotypes today, concluding that such settler—origin countries as Wales are vital sites of decolonial debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781837722167
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Publication date: 05/20/2025
Series: Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Lucy Taylor is a senior lecturer at the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Introduction: Where the Welsh Are
Chapter Two: Theorizing Y Wladfa
Chapter Three: Y Wladfa in Historical and Global Perspective
Chapter Four: Possession in Y Wladfa
Chapter Five: Barbarization and the Myth of Friendship
Chapter Six: Y Wladfa and Assimilation
Chapter Seven: Y Wladfa, Assimilation and Coloniality Today
Chapter Eight: Conclusion – and Ways Forwards
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