Heb ei fai, heb ei eni: ‘Disgwrs’ a Moeseg y Wladfa (Those without fault are yet to be born: the ‘Discourse’ and Ethics of Welsh Patagonia)

Williams, Huw ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7577-8816 2023. Heb ei fai, heb ei eni: ‘Disgwrs’ a Moeseg y Wladfa (Those without fault are yet to be born: the ‘Discourse’ and Ethics of Welsh Patagonia). Gwerddon (36) , pp. 49-66. 10.61257/KLNP4889

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Abstract

The recent online public discussion about Welsh Patagonia has been characterized by a tendency to condemn the settlers from Wales on moral grounds. This article takes on this debate, weighing up how, and to what extent, it is possible for us to place Y Wladfa and its people on the scales of morality. It gives detailed attention to the writing of Geraldine Lublin and Lucy Taylor on the history, as examples of reflective, multi-layered analysis that succeeds in conveying the complexity and difficulties of the situation. Having offered this outline, Iris Marion Young’s ethical framework is applied to the history, in order to highlight key ethical considerations, following Catherine Lu’s application of the same ‘social connection’ model to Japanese colonial history. Some initial conclusions are offered about what is revealed. Nodweddir y drafodaeth gyhoeddus ar-lein ddiweddar ynghylch y Wladfa gan duedd i gollfarnu’r gwladfawyr Cymreig ar sail foesol. Â’r erthygl hon i’r afael â’r tueddiad hwn gan bwyso a mesur sut, ac i ba raddau, y mae modd inni osod y Wladfa a’i phobl yn y fantol foesol. Rhoddir sylw manwl i ymdriniaethau Geraldine Lublin a Lucy Taylor â’r hanes, fel enghreifftiau o ddadansoddi ystyrlon, amlhaenog sy’n llwyddo i gyfleu cymhlethdod a drysni’r sefyllfa. Wedi cynnig y braslun hwn, cymhwysir fframwaith moesegol Iris Marion Young i’r hanes, er mwyn amlygu ystyriaethau moesegol allweddol, sy’n dilyn ymgais Catherine Lu i gymhwyso’r un model ‘cysylltiadau cymdeithasol’ i hanes trefedigaethol Siapan. Cynigir rhai casgliadau cychwynnol ynghylch yr hyn a amlygir.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics F History United States, Canada, Latin America > F1201 Latin America (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory
Publisher:	Gwerddon
ISSN:	1741-4261
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 January 2024
Last Modified:	24 Jan 2024 10:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/165408

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