Malvinas 40 years later. Possible moves in a war of positions

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/hyg.n2.11153
Keywords: Falklands, Paradox, War, Intellectuals

Abstract

This article shows the contributions of Social Anthropology and Ethnography in a typically historical issue such as the Anglo-Argentine conflict of 1982, over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and the South Atlantic archipelagoes. Through a historical review, this text reconstructs the instances in which the positions that came to "solve" the paradox that underlies this war and its subsequent memory were formed: it was the dictatorship of the self-called National Reorganization Process (1976-1983) that carried out the recovery of the Malvinas Islands, with the popular support of the whole country. Despite this 40-year-postwar, these positions remain unshakable and prevent us from understanding that war, and above all, how it was possible.

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Author Biography

Rosana Guber, CIS-IDES/CONICET / IDES-IDAES/UNSAM, Argentina
Rosana Guber is Principal Researcher CIS-IDES/CONICET. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University. She directs the Master in Social Anthropology (IDES-IDAES/UNSAM). Regarding the war, she has published the books ¿Por qué Malvinas? (2001), De chicos a veteranos (2004), Experiencia de halcón. Ni héroes ni kamikaze, pilotos de A-4B (2016) and Mar de guerra (2022), in addition to book chapters and academic and public history articles (1st Mention divulgation UBA, 2017). In 2016, she received the Konex Platinum Award in Archaeology/Anthropology.

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Published
2022-09-19
How to Cite
Guber, R. (2022). Malvinas 40 years later. Possible moves in a war of positions. Historia & Guerra, (2), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.34096/hyg.n2.11153
Issue
No 2 (2022): Julio-Diciembre
Section
Essay

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