Dr Eleonora Natale is a Lecturer in Environmental Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. An expert on the militarisation of Latin American politics, her research focuses on the environmental, defence, and civil-military relations dimensions of this phenomenon. Dr Natale has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Argentina and Brazil, and she is currently exploring the military’s role in public and environmental policy, particularly in the Amazon region.

Dr Natale was a Visiting Researcher at both the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff College (2023) and the Superior War College (2022) in Rio de Janeiro. Her doctoral research, completed at Keele University, explored the experiences of military families during Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976–83), focusing on their involvement in political violence and transitional justice. Prior to joining King’s College London, she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires, where she investigated Argentina’s involvement in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War.

https://kcl.academia.edu/EleonoraNatale

 

Research Interests

• Latin America and the Amazon
• Environmental security
• Falklands/Malvinas War
• Political violence
• Military families

Dr Natale's research interests centre on the 'everyday dimension' of militarisation, with a particular focus on the social and familial aspects of military life. She is passionate about ethnographic methods and oral history, as well as the challenges of conducting empirical research on conflict and military affairs. Her work has been supported by research grants from Santander, the Argentine Ministry of Education, and the Society for Latin American Studies. These grants have enabled her to establish long-term collaborations with social scientists across South America who work on military-related issues.

At King’s College London, Dr Natale coordinates the Latin American Security Research Group and collaborates with the King’s Brazil Institute as a co-investigator on the ‘Military in Politics in Brazil’ project. She is also a member of the European Research Group on Military and Society (ERGOMAS).

 

Publications

• Military Families, Political Violence and Transitional Justice in Argentina. Perpetrators Within? (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2024)
• ‘Defence and security in Brazil: what role for Parliament?’,King’s Observatory for Democracy in Latin America Policy Series (2022) [co-authored with Vinicius De Carvalho, Raphael Lima, Anthony Pereira, Anais Medeiros Passos, Eduardo Svartman and Charlotte Bascaule]
• ‘From Campo de Mayo to Malvinas, and Back: The Falklands/Malvinas War from the Perspective of Argentine Veterans Accused of Crimes Against Humanity’, Journal of War & Culture Studies(2022), Vol.15, No.3, pp.309-327.
• ‘Reflections on Conflict and Culture on the 40th Anniversary of the Falklands/Malvinas War’. Journal of War & Culture Studies(2022), Vol.15, No.3, pp.261-265 [co-authored with Rachel Woodward, Matt Benwell, Neil Jenkings and Helen Parr]
• ‘Researching Violence and Everyday Life in the 1970s: an Ethnographic Approach to the Argentine Military Family’, Bulletin of Latin American Research(2021), Vol.41, No.3, pp. 450–464.

 

Teaching

• BA1 Conflict and Diplomacy
• BA3 Security and International Relations in Latin America
• MA Diplomacy and Foreign Policy