Chair: Dr Amanda Chisholm, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies / Researcher in Gender and Security

Speaker: Eleonora Natale, Lecturer in the Department of War Studies

 

The seminar will discuss an alternative perspective on the Argentine military, addressing the everyday aspects of military life before and during the last dictatorship (1976-83). By exploring the private sphere of the family, this ethnography challenges the traditional geopolitical focus on the monolithic masculine narratives of military actors in Latin America, to embrace the experiences of both former military officers and their wives. Based on fieldwork conducted in Buenos Aires 35 years after the end of the dictatorship, when the military are being prosecuted for the crimes of the regime, this paper presents an innovative interpretive framework in which different understandings of violence and political confrontation emerge.

Bio

Eleonora Natale is a Lecturer at the Department of War Studies. By applying the ethnographic method, her research questions the military of Argentina’s last dictatorship and their experience of war, political violence and transitional justice. She is especially interested in exploring the everyday dimension of military life, particularly the social and family spheres. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Nacional De San Martín (Buenos Aires), Eleonora has extended her expertise to the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War. Before joining King’s College, she has taught at Durham and Keele University, where she also obtained her PhD in 2019. 

 

 

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