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JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 273-300Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X15001248
Keywords
memory; commemoration; education; Argentina; Malvinas War
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- Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Fellowship)
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Narratives of memory have received considerable attention in Argentina but rarely have these been examined in relation to the 1982 Malvinas War. This article focuses on national memory narratives of the war manifest in educational resources and explores how and under what conditions local ways of remembering can transform and/or reproduce such narratives, through research within secondary schools in Rio Gallegos, a city in the south of Argentina. It shows how the city's connections with the military and the war generated sensitivities that influenced how the Malvinas was engaged in the classroom. The localised framings deviated from predominant national memory narratives by underplaying the broader context of state terror and overlooking histories associated with the Malvinas before 1982.
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