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We analyze the last thirty years of Argentine foreign policy over the Malvinas Islands, from the restart of bilateral relations between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1989. We look at the stages of foreign policy, starting from the voices of decision-makers of different governments, rereading the changes and continuities of the Malvinas Question in their different historical contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this article is to rescue the historical moment in which hydrographic basins turn out to be considered as spatial units for planning and regionalization of the territory. Hydrographic basins have scientifically been chosen as structure of morphological differentiation of the Earth's crust since the seventeenth century pari passu the migration of the world-system of the Mediterranean up to Northern Europe in a time of effective imperialist struggle between France and Great Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aware of the contribution of the literate elite to British imperialism, this paper investigates, by examination of fictional texts and essays by Victorian writers and literary critics such as Alfred Tennyson and Matthew Arnold, the instrumentality of gender in the invention of racial difference that sought to justify the colonization of Ireland. Through the sources investigated, we found that the Celts were feminized as antitheses of the "manly" Anglo-Saxons because of their alleged emotional and intellectual weakness, being thus equated to metropolitan women in representations which amalgamated racism and sexism. Thanks to the concatenation between racial and gender stereotypes, the antinomy male/female allowed the elaboration of disjunctions aimed at naturalizing asymmetries between empire and colony under the alibis of "natural" gender complementarity and hierarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]