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AbstractNarratives of memory have received considerable attention in Argentina but rarely have these been examined in relation to the 1982 Malvinas War. This article focuses on national memory narratives of the war manifest in educational resources and explores how and under what conditions local ways of remembering can transform and/or reproduce such narratives, through research within secondary schools in Río Gallegos, a city in the south of Argentina. It shows how the city's connections with the military and the war generated sensitivities that influenced how the Malvinas was engaged in the classroom. The localised framings deviated from predominant national memory narratives by underplaying the broader context of state terror and overlooking histories associated with the Malvinas before 1982.

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Critical Geopolitics -- List of Figures and Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introducing Children's and Young People's Critical Geopolitics -- 2 Crossing Points: Contesting Militarism in the Spaces of Children's Everyday Lives in Britain and Germany -- 3 Children, Young People and the Everyday Geopolitics of British Military Recruitment -- 4 Ludic - or Playful - Geopolitics -- 5 Children's Emotional Geographies and the Geopolitics of Division in Cyprus -- 6 Life, Love, and Activism on the Forgotten Margins of the Nation State -- 7 Young Falkland Islanders and Diplomacy in the South Atlantic -- 8 'Dear Prime Minister ...' Mapping Island Children's Political Views on Climate Change -- 9 Critical Geopolitics of Child and Youth Migration in (Post)socialist Laos -- 10 Young People's Engagement with the Geopolitics of Anti-Apartheid Solidarity in 1980s' London -- 11 Becoming Geopolitical in the Everyday World -- 12 Conclusion -- Index

The growing climate crisis has shown how children and young people can be a political force to be reckoned with. While Greta Thunberg and many other young climate activists from around the world personify this force, there is another - largely hidden - story to be told about the everyday practices that young people adopt, in our homes, in our schools and in local communities to respond to environmental concerns. This issue brings together leading commentators to advance the future direction of research into young people's everyday climate crisis activism. In this editorial introduction, we outline some of the new terrains for research, analysis and action that these articles collectively open up. The journal Children's Geographies invites scholars to consider it as a place for the publication of articles that respond to the agenda-setting outlined in this collection and further advance work on young people's everyday climate crisis activism.

Academic and popular debates examining the geopolitics of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas have focused overwhelming attention on the 1982 war and its aftermath in ways that foreground (in)security in predominantly militaristic terms. Notwithstanding these tendencies, this paper seeks to think through another example of 'invasion' of the Falkland Islands that has been important in provoking and sustaining insecurity among Islanders. The film Fuckland (2000), directed by José Luis Marqués, was shot covertly in the Falklands without the consent of Falkland Islanders who unwittingly star in it. By examining the scales, sites, practices and shifting temporalities of Fuckland, as well as the everyday insecurities it (re)produces, we show how the bodies, homes and community of Falkland Islanders have been territorialised in the Argentine geopolitical imagination, and therefore subject to modes of violence. Fuckland also exposes the enmeshing of practical, popular and everyday geopolitics in productive ways that allow us to address popular geopolitics' approaches to 'the cinematic' (and other media). Rather than treating Fuckland's production and consumption as distinctive temporal moments, we seek to account for how film can linger and reverberate in often subtle and sinister ways long after fading from mainstream public attention. We position the film as a lively geopolitical object with ongoing emotional and other effects/affects that have the potential to 'feed back' into practical/everyday geopolitical and diplomatic relations. Examining these kinds of events can be useful in understanding why the Falkland Islands Government (and the Islanders themselves) continue to be so cautious in their management of contemporary diplomatic relations with Argentina.