ABSTRACT
This chapter charts some developments in diplomatic activity and the enactment of geopolitics in the south Atlantic, with specific reference to the Falklands-Malvinas sovereignty dispute. It focuses on work highlighting the increasingly variegated and creative diplomacies being enacted by state and non-state actors by thinking specifically about the involvement of young people from the Falkland Islands in diplomatic activities. The chapter presents a diplomacy studies and critical geopolitics to explore more comprehensively young people's potential to act in these kinds of geopolitical encounters. It outlines the embodied and performative aspects of young Islanders' involvement in different practices and spaces of diplomacy, ranging from encounters in the conference halls and corridors of the UN to those that take place online and using social networking websites. It draws on research from a larger project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on how young people from Argentina, the Falkland Islands and the UK learn about and interpret the geopolitical dispute in the South Atlantic.
