Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2078539
Matthew C. Benwell, A. Pinkerton
Studies of memory in relation to the Falklands/Malvinas War have typically focused on interrogating narratives, practices and performances associated with its memory within different national contexts (predominantly Argentina, the Falkland Islands and the UK). Far less attention, however, has been placed on how memory of the war is summoned on the international stage, in diplomatic settings like the United Nations (UN). This paper analyses specific diplomatic materials and performances produced by the governments of the Falkland Islands and Argentina on and after the 30th anniversary of the war (2012-15), paying particular attention to how they reference the 1982 war. The paper argues that these performances and materials of diplomacy are revealing of the (re)production of geopolitical relations and strategies, as well as how memories of the past can be consciously foregrounded/backgrounded in an attempt to achieve strategic and diplomatic objectives.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2078543
Helen Parr
This article examines how the Falklands war has been remembered in Britain. By looking at how ideas of the Falklands war reached public audiences, the article traces changing British understandings of the composition of the conflict. In the 1980s, the war was regarded as politically divisive. Since the 1990s, political divisions faded, and the perspectives of veterans, particularly as represented in the memoirs of lower ranked soldiers, became prominent. This has resulted in focus on new themes, such as experiences of combat trauma and relationships with the Falkland Islands and islanders. These changes illustrate shifts in civil–military relations in Britain and encouraged new interpretations of what the Falklands war meant for Britain. In the contexts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly that of Iraq, Britain’s engagement in the Falklands came to be seen not only as politically legitimate, but also as the right choice to have made.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2078544
R. Woodward, Matthew C. Benwell, K. Neil Jenkings, E. Natale, Helen Parr
This introduction to the special issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies sets out the scope of the collection of articles which reflect in different ways on conflict and culture on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War. The special issue highlights the diversity of practices of cultural production in response to the war and its legacy. The articles examine: how the war has been remembered in Britain since 1982, materials which inform diplomatic practices through which the war is remembered in Argentina and the Falkland Islands, memories of the Malvinas War from the perspective of Argentine military veterans imprisoned for crimes against humanity, UK military veteran practices of return and/or pilgrimage to the islands, and the use of hyper-realistic painting by an Argentine pilot-turned-artist in reproducing and reconstructing some of the war's events.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2078541
E. Natale
Four decades after the Falklands/Malvinas War and Argentina’s return to democracy, this article explores the ways in which veterans accused of crimes against humanity remember the conflict. Before confronting the British in the South Atlantic in 1982, the Argentine military had been involved in operations of counterinsurgency and illegal repression at home. Since 2005, hundreds of former officers — including veterans of the Malvinas War — have been accused and convicted for the crimes of the 1970s. This article focuses on the narrative of ‘Malvinas’ shared by former comandos (special forces) in the prison where they are detained in the present. It questions the content of ethnographic interviews with these veterans, and the context in which they were produced, to revisit the link between the violence of the 1970s and the Malvinas War from the perspective of the military involved in both scenarios. In so doing, the article deals with some unsolved issues of memorialization in post-war and post-authoritarian Argentina.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-28DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2078540
K. Jenkings, J. Beales
In 2002 the South Atlantic Medal Association organized its first ‘pilgrimage’ to the Falkland Islands. Pilgrimages to the islands have since become a regular occurrence. Battlefield ‘pilgrimages’ are seen not only as a ritual of remembrance of the dead, but as a cathartic act of personal and bonded-group self-affirmation, understood by many as an essential element of the psychological healing process after war. Yet public and media representations are dominated by images of parades, memorials and wreath laying and largely exclude the voices of the veterans and the bereaved. Using memoirs, oral testimonies, autoethnography, veterans’ associations newsletters and social media sites as sources, this article respecifies the phenomenon of the ‘pilgrimage’, stressing the unique adequacy of members' practices amonst themselves as constitutive of the pilgrimage experience. The paper questions the future of the Falklands pilgrimage cultural practices as veterans of this conflict age, and the meaning and location of sites of pilgrimage change.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2065120
Tom Allbeson, C. Gorrara
This article examines how photography documenting the military campaign in Burma was mobilized in efforts to reconstruct the image and idea of the British Empire at the end of the Second World War. It analyses a selection of popular publications which provided visual instruction for white Anglophone audiences, promoting continuing British imperialism after the Allied victory. These publications were intended to be kept for posterity, acting as ‘domestic archives of empire’ for Anglophone audiences across the globe. Such publications represented the empire at war and in peacetime, supposedly fit for the postwar moment. At the time of their publication, these ‘domestic archives of empire’ exhorted white Anglophone readers to view the British Empire as embodying a liberal and tolerant mission. Today, they offer insights into a vernacular history of empire on the verge of fragmentation, presaging the challenges of reconstruction and decolonization and the development of imperial nostalgia.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2065118
R. Dale
This article explores the photographs taken of the Red Army’s homecoming in the summer 1945. It examines what these reveal about post-war reconstruction and the re-establishment of communities. It argues that official demobilization photography was a carefully constructed and highly politicized attempt to visualize veterans’ reintegration, which subsequently structured war memory. The research is based on two forms of primary evidence, first the photographs and the visual evidence they contain, and second textual sources, including press accounts and archival documents, which reveal how these photographs were taken. The article examines the visual vocabularies and messages in photographs of soldiers departing from Berlin, and soldiers’ arrival in major cities, particularly Moscow and Leningrad. These images, for all their emotional power, were not representative of mass demobilization, but have been widely reproduced. Demobilization photography communicated important messages about post-war reconstruction, the reimposition of post-war gender norms, helping re-order and create post-war society.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2065123
R. Clifford
This article uses photographs of a group of child Holocaust survivors – the so-called ‘Lingfield children’ from the Weir Courtney care home in Lingfield, Surrey – to explore how images of survivor children were deployed in the early postwar period. It argues that these images responded to broader anxieties about a generation of ‘war-damaged’ European children, and in their self-conscious portrayal of happy and settled survivor children, they intervened in postwar debates about the parameters of a ‘normal’ childhood. These images suggest that processes of reconstruction after the war were understood to be as much about psychological as physical healing, and that images of children recovering in mental health spoke to a number of postwar concerns: fears about the stability of postwar democracies, new understandings of the role of humanitarian aid, early understanding of the genocide of Europe’s Jews, and growing public interest in child psychoanalysis and issues of child development.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2065122
K. Foster
This article considers how Australian photography from the late 1930s to the early 1950s encouraged public engagement with the aims and policies of post-war reconstruction. It examines how the nation’s first photo-magazine, Pix, covered the build up to and early months of the war and emphasised its reach into the domestic sphere. It examines photography’s role in making housing a core social and political issue, considers Australia’s efforts to house its returning service personnel, and the innovative responses of the public and private sectors to shortages of materials and manpower. It analyses how photography established the modern home as the emblem of a new beginning and how it shifted the consumer’s perspective from exterior views of the house to a focus on interiors and the imagined experience of habitation. Appraising Wolfgang Sievers’ popularisation of modern home design, the article will conclude by examining photography’s role in capturing the epic scale of post-war reconstruction’s greatest engineering triumph – the Snowy Mountain Hydro Electric Scheme.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17526272.2022.2065119
L. Humbert
This article explores how photography documenting humanitarian aid in French-occupied Germany was mobilized to enhance France’s image, against the backdrop of increasing anxieties about its international standing. It draws on images found in the archives of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and the French occupation zone , which sat between the ‘official’ and the ‘private’. In doing so, it calls for a recognition of the role of amateur and relief workers photographers in sustaining post-war visual discourses of internationalism and national-self fashioning. Although largely overlooked today, these images play a role in wider debates about what it meant to be ‘French’ in the aftermath of the Nazi occupation. Relief workers and amateur photographers built on and reproduced aspects of the widely disseminated narrative about the universalism of resistance to disrupt images of the zone as a refuge for wartime collaborators. This neglected aspect of humanitarian imagery offers fresh insights into the contribution of these photographers to post-war diplomatic strategies.
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