Malvinas: elaboraciones individuales y colectivas desde/hacia la identidad nacional en Río Negro

Abstract

This thesis investigates the processes of subjectivation of the ex-combatants/veterans of the Falklands War who currently reside in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, from 1982 to the present. The aim is to reconstruct the various contexts that have been or are enabling or disabling for these individuals to express their war experiences, reintegrate socially, make their identities thinkable again, and negotiate their living conditions in the post-war period. In this way, it seeks to give depth to personal elaborations of pain that, articulated in political discourses related to national issues, challenge the entire citizenry through the dimension of Argentine identity. To achieve this, the research focuses on the process of collectivization of the Bariloche group, the life trajectories of some of its members, and the formulation and implementation of social security public policies at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. Thus, the thesis aims to reflect on various narratives in dispute about the recent past and the history of the nation. At the same time, it examines how these disputes are expressed in the ways in which the protagonists of a key event for the national community— a war founded on the cause of exercising sovereignty over the imagined territory of the nation— narrate (and narrate themselves).