Abstract:
Human rights violations during the Malvinas War in 1982 are usually thought of as continuities of the political repressive logic of the last civic military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). But the memories of some protagonists of the war suggest longer histories. This article analyzes ten testimonies of argentinean Malvinas veterans stored in the Oral Archive of Memoria Abierta from a feminist perspective sensitive to the body, paying attention to certain disciplinary practices and ways of managing the troops. It suggests that the continuities between the mandatory military service-which began in the early 20th century-and the war of 1982, speak of key sites for the making of hegemonic masculinity in Argentina; laboratories that modelled men´s bodies and the most toxic forms of heteropatriarchy.
Keywords:
Masculinities; Social Memory; Malvinas War; Conscription