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More information regarding CC licenses is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses Revisiting the Falklands-Malvinas Question Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives edited by Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa INSTITUTE OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Revisiting the Falklands– Malvinas Question Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives edited by Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa University of London Press Institute of Latin American Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2021 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. More information regarding CC licenses is available at https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/. This book is also available online at http://humanities-digital-library.org. ISBN: 978-1-908857-56-9 (paperback edition) 978-1-908857-85-9 (.epub edition) 978-1-908857-86-6 (.mobi edition) 978-1-908857-80-4 (PDF edition) DOI: 10.14296/1220.9781908857804 (PDF edition) Institute of Latin American Studies School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House London WC1E 7HU Cover illustration by Marcelo Spotti. The editors thank Catriona McAllister for her assistance in translating chapters originally written in Spanish. Contents Notes on contributors vii Preface xii Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa Introduction State, national identity and power: a historical tour in search of the causes of the Falklands–Malvinas War 1 Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa 1. Resisting bio-power: ‘laughter’, ‘fraternity’ and ‘imagination’ under dictatorship and the Malvinas–Falklands War 31 María José Bruña Bragado 2. Exile, the Malvinas War and human rights 53 Silvina Jensen 3. Attitudes towards the Falklands–Malvinas War: European and Latin American left perspectives 75 Fernando Pedrosa 4. The Falklands–Malvinas War and transitions to democracy in Latin America: the turning point of 1979–82 97 Guillermo Mira 5. The Malvinas journey: harsh landscapes, rough writing, raw footage 111 Julieta Vitullo 6. Malvinas miscellanea: notes on a diary written while shooting a film in these remote islands 127 Edgardo Dieleke 7. Malvinas, civil society and populism: a cinematic perspective 141 Joanna Page 8. Flying the flag: Malvinas and questions of patriotism 161 Catriona McAllister iii iv REVISITING THE FALKLANDS–MALVINAS QUESTION 9. Leaving behind the trenches of nationalism: teaching the Malvinas in secondary schools in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz province 173 Matthew C. Benwell and Alejandro Gasel 10. Chronicle of a referendum foretold: what next for the Malvinas–Falklands? 185 Cara Levey and Daniel Ozarow 11. The limits of negotiation 199 Andrew Graham-Yooll 12. It breaks two to tangle: constructing and deconstructing bridges 209 Bernard McGuirk Information resources on the Falkland–Malvinas conflict 251 Christine Anderson and María R. Osuna Alarcón Index 269 We dedicate this book to Andrew Graham-Yooll Very shortly before this book was published, we learned that our friend Andrew Graham-Yooll had died. Andrew was a big part of this project: he participated in the production, writing and editing process. Andrew was a great journalist, historian, translator and poet, but above all, a great person whom we shall always remember. v Notes on contributors Christine Anderson is research librarian for Latin American and Caribbean studies and Commonwealth studies at Senate House Library, University of London. María José Bruña Bragado is a full professor at the Hispanic literature department, University of Salamanca. Between 1999 and 2009 she was a lecturer, teaching assistant and postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, University of Pennsylvania, Université Paris 8 and Université de Neuchâtel. She has published Delmira Agustini: Dandismo, género y reescritura del imaginario modernista (Peter Lang, 2005), Cómo leer a Delmira Agustini: algunas claves críticas (Verbum, 2008), and co-edited the Uruguayan poetry anthology Austero desorden: Voces de la poesía uruguaya reciente (Verbum, 2011). She also edited Todo de pronto es nada (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2015) on Ida Vitale’s poetry. Currently she works as an editor at RELEE (Colección Al Bies). Cuando ellas cuentan: Narradoras hispánicas de ambas orillas and Peregrinaciones de una paria by Flora Tristán are its most recent publications. Matthew C. Benwell is a senior lecturer in human geography at Newcastle University. He was previously a Leverhulme early career fellow at Keele University working on a project exploring ‘The making of the geopolitical citizen: the case of the Falklands/Malvinas’. Matthew is currently co-investigator on a HERA Joint Research Programme (Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe) investigating ‘The everyday experiences of young refugees and asylum seekers in public spaces’. Matthew’s research interests include children and young people’s engagement with geopolitics (especially in the Southern Cone), everyday nationalism and spaces of memory and commemoration. Edgardo Dieleke is a filmmaker, editor and cultural critic. With Daniel Casabé, he directed the documentaries The Exact Shape of the Islands (released in 2014) and Cracks de nácar (released in 2013). He is a professor of film and literature at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina) and teaches at NYU–Buenos Aires. He is the chief editor of the film books series Las Naves, published by Tenemos las máquinas. He has published articles in books and magazines in Argentina, the UK, Brazil and Spain. He is currently working on his first fictional film. Alejandro Gasel is a specialist in the social sciences at FLACSO, Costa Rica. He holds a PhD in literature from Universidad Nacional de La Plata and is an vii viii REVISITING THE FALKLANDS–MALVINAS QUESTION associate professor at Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Unidad Académica Río Gallegos, where he specialises in literary methodologies. He has been a doctoral and post-doctoral fellow at CONICET, visiting fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Newcastle University and Erasmus+ programme fellow at Bergische Universität Wuppertal. He is also currently part of the Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers (2020–22) at the Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is a member of the editorial team of the journal El taco en la brea, and has published in Chile, Brazil, Colombia, the UK and Germany. Andrew Graham-Yooll was a multifaceted Argentine journalist of Scottish origin. In 1966 he joined The Buenos Aires Herald, where he became a political columnist and editorial secretary. His journalistic work investigating the crimes committed before and during the military dictatorship forced him into exile in the land of his ancestry. In London, he worked in the newsrooms of The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian and reinvented himself as a writer. A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina’s Nightmare (Eland Books, 1986) established him as one of the most lucid witnesses to the years of terror in Argentina. In 1982, when the regime of General Leopoldo Galtieri occupied the Falklands–Malvinas, The Guardian sent him to cover the conflict. Threatened by the henchmen of the dictatorship, he had to escape to England, where he edited South Magazine, The Third World Magazineand, between 1989 and 1993, Index on Censorship. He returned indefinitely to Buenos Aires in 1994 to direct the newspaper of his youth and held the presidency of The Buenos Aires Herald directory until 1998. He wrote historical works, essays, poetry and travel books; he devoted himself to translation and literary criticism with the same enthusiasm and professionalism with which he embraced his journalistic life. He died during a visit to London in 2019. Silvina Jensen was awarded her PhD in contemporary history from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain). She is currently professor of theory and methodology of history at Universidad Nacional del Sur (Bahía Blanca, Argentina) and an independent researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET, Argentina). She has taught at various universities in Argentina and has been a visiting professor in Brazil, Mexico, Chile and Spain. She is a specialist in mass political exiles in the Hispanic World from comparative and transnational perspectives. She has published numerous scholarly articles and books about the history and memory of Argentine political exile; historiography of the recent past in Argentina and Spain; exiles; political prisoners and repression in the Southern Cone in the second half of the 20th century; and exiles