The Strategic Mobilisation of the Border in Gibraltar: The Postcolonial (Re)Production of Privilege and Exclusion

• Orsini, Giacomo ^[1] ; Canessa, Andrew ^[2] ; G. Martínez del Campo, Luis ^[3]
  1. [1] Ghent University

     Ghent University

     Arrondissement Gent, Bélgica

     
  2. [2] University of Essex

     University of Essex

     Colchester District, Reino Unido

     
  3. [3] Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     

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• Localización: Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, ISSN-e 1123-7023, Nº. 23, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cromohs)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The border separating/unifying Gibraltar with Spain is reproduced in public discourse as a threat and an obstacle to the normalisation of political life in the small enclave. Yet, an in-depth socio-historical analysis of local cross-border relations over the 20th century, shows how the Gibraltarian national identity and local government originate from the border rather than in opposition to it. The fencing of the frontier imposed by the Franco’s regime between 1969-1985 allows the discursive (re)production of a Gibraltarian identity distinct from that of the Spanish neighbours - and, in part, from that of the English colonisers.