Us and Them: British and Gibraltarian Colonialism in the Campo de Gibraltar c. 1900–1954

Stockey, Gareth

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-99310-2_4

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“…Despite the British attempts to divide and rule the people of Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar -the British officials actively encouraged the Gibraltarians to see themselves as socially superior to the Spanish and adopt a colonial attitude vis-à-vis Spaniards even though they were colonial subjects themselves 69 -, cross-border interactions over the centuries remained structured around class solidarity and cultural sameness.…”

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

Orsini

Canessa

Campo

2021

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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.

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