Edition 1 - Editorial

EDITORIAL Identity, in all its complexity, is of interest across the arts, humanities and social sciences. In a year marked by significant attention to anniversaries including the abolition of the British slave trade and the Treaty of Union between England and Scotland, it is clear that today’s identities are influenced by our understanding and commemoration of the past. Interdisciplinary work while fashionable is problematic. This volume offers a range of articles, broad in scope, bound together by a common theme with distinct epistemological approaches. This includes articles that synthesise the tools of several disciplines; articles that consider the interests of one discipline through the lens of another; and articles that require multiple perspectives to better consider situations, places and people. Our common identity has been as undergraduate students of the University of Glasgow. This academic community informed our work as authors and editors. The Scottish undergraduate Master of Arts degree has a long tradition of encouraging breadth of thought through the requirement to follow a variety of academic subjects before specialisation, and in the significant numbers of students who graduate with joint honours degrees. Groundings emerged from within the Glasgow University Dialectic Society. Our campus debating society has, over the centuries, brought together students from all disciplines in a shared pursuit of knowledge through discussion. Our aim, today, is to further debate on identity and commemoration, in interdisciplinary perspective, through the critical insights of talented undergraduate students. GROUNDINGS EDITORIAL BOARD