Remembering the Falklands War: Media, Memory, Identity offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices of media-remembering.

It draws upon ethnographic data collected from the 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 book 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.

Questions regarding who is remembering what and how are at the centre of this analysis. But so so too is the motivation and commitment of those engaged in the act of remembering within the specific temporal and social context of the Anniversary of the Falklands War.

Consequently, the book not only examines the role of media in the formation and sustaining of collective memory but also the ways those who are remembered or remember in media texts become implicated in these processes.

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Featured Image: Battle remnant of an Argentine gun holster, Mount Harriet, Falkland Islands. June 2012. © Sarah Maltby