Remembering the Falklands War

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering. It draws upon data collected from the British military, the BBC and Falkland Islanders during the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands war to uniquely offer multiple perspectives on a single 'remembering' phenomenon. The study offers an analysis of the convergence, interconnectedness and interdependence of media and remembering, specifically the production, interpretation and negotiation of remembering in the media ecology. In so doing it not only examines the role of media in the formation and sustaining of collective memory but also the ways those who remember or are remembered in media texts become implicated in these processes.

Autorentext

Sarah Maltby is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Sussex University, UK.

Inhalt
1.Introduction.- 2.The Media and The Falklands.- 3.The Military Story: Multiple Identities, Subjectivity and Narrative Sense-Giving.- 4.The BBC Story: Identity and Memory Work as News Determinants.- 5.The Islanders story: Confused Identities, Interpellation and Subjugation.- 6.Media-Remembering: Power, Identity and Agency