Salvaging Empire probes the historical roots and current predicaments of a twenty-first
century settler colony seeking to control an uncertain future through resource management
and environmental science. Four decades after a violent 1982 war between the United
Kingdom and Argentina reestablished British authority over the Falkland Islands (Las
Malvinas in Spanish), a commercial fishing boom and offshore oil discoveries have
intensified the sovereignty dispute over the South Atlantic archipelago. Scholarly literature …

Thus far, most of the literature on the history of the Falkland Islands focuses largely on the
1982 war between the UK and Argentina. There have been fewer attempts to seriously
integrate the islands within greater discussions of British imperial history; Ezequiel Mercau's
The Falklands War: An Imperial History (2019), being a major exception. As a British
Overseas Territory with a hotly contested geopolitical status, the Falkland Islands occupy a
curious position in the post-imperial world of today. Anthropologist James JA Blair's …