Contents

Notes on contributors

Preface
Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa

Introduction
State, national identity and power: a historical tour in search of the causes of the Falklands–Malvinas War
Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa

1. Resisting bio-power: ‘laughter’, ‘fraternity’ and ‘imagination’ under dictatorship and the Malvinas–Falklands War María José Bruña Bragado

2. Exile, the Malvinas War and human rights Silvina Jensen

3. Attitudes towards the Falklands–Malvinas War: European and Latin American left perspectives Fernando Pedrosa

4. The Falklands–Malvinas War and transitions to democracy in Latin America: the turning point of 1979–82 Guillermo Mira

5. The Malvinas journey: harsh landscapes, rough writing, raw footage Julieta Vitullo

6. Malvinas miscellanea: notes on a diary written while shooting a film in these remote islands Edgardo Dieleke

7. Malvinas, civil society and populism: a cinematic perspective Joanna Page

8. Flying the flag: Malvinas and questions of patriotism Catriona McAllister

9. Leaving behind the trenches of nationalism: teaching the Malvinas in secondary schools in Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz province
Matthew C. Benwell and Alejandro Gasel

10. Chronicle of a referendum foretold: what next for the Malvinas–Falklands?
Cara Levey and Daniel Ozarow

11. The limits of negotiation
Andrew Graham-Yooll

12. It breaks two to tangle: constructing and deconstructing bridges
Bernard McGuirk

Information resources on the Falkland–Malvinas conflict
Christine Anderson and María R. Osuna Alarcón

Index