Laura Rodriguez Castro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 287395 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Laura Rodriguez Castro |
| PRENOMES | Laura Rodriguez |
| SOBRENOME | Castro |
| ASSINATURA | CASTRO L R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8431-5215 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
When necronarratives travel
Necropolitics have characterised Latin America’s contemporary conflicts and dictatorships. This article draws from 15 in-depth interviews with migrants from post-conflict and dictatorial Latin America (from Guatemala, Colombia, El Salvador, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay) living in Australia, to explore what happens when memories travel in post-violence contexts. Based on the recollection of fragmented memories of violence and conflict,…
Zine-Making for Climate Justice Education
Art-making has long been a feature of education and is increasingly being engaged to challenge normative perspectives in environmental education. This collaborative piece reflects on a creative pedagogy of zine-making for climate justice education based on the experiences of a zine/arts-making workshop held on Bundjalung Nation Country (so-called Kingscliff, Australia) for the annual retreat of The Sustainability, Environment, and the Arts in Edu…
Settler colonialism, neoliberal feminism and the ‘white middle-class farming woman’ in Australia
Critical feminist zine-making as method and pedagogy
Zine-making is a longstanding grassroots feminist practice that merges creativity, activism, and critical inquiry. This article examines the methodological and pedagogical potentials of feminist zine-making and zines, reflecting on the Affect, Knowledge and Embodiment (AKE) workshop series (and zine) held periodically in Australia since 2018. We discuss our experience of facilitating this workshop series and co-editing the six volumes of the AKE …
Reckoning with truth globally
This Special Issue interrogates the limitations and possibilities of truth within global efforts to address historical injustice. Over the past 30 years truth commissions have become ubiquitous in response to authoritarian regimes and colonial legacies. However, their ability to facilitate meaningful transformation is increasingly contested. In this editorial we explore what a decolonial reckoning, rather than reconciliation, with the past and co…
Complicating difficult heritage and the politics of institutionalized memory in post-Accord Colombia
The Colombian peace process with the insurgent group FARC-EP has been characterized by a lack of compliance and the politicization of peace and memory including the work of sites of memory and peace. Through complicating the European-focused concept of difficult heritage, this article presents the interventions of three museum curators and/or directors of the country’s key centralized memory and peace institutions: the Memory House Museum in Mede…
Difficult Politics and Poetics
Peru and Colombia are prominent cases within museological debates on memorializing conflict. Following extended armed conflicts and Peace Accords in the latter decades of the twentieth century (Peru: 1980–2000; Colombia 1964–2016), attention to the countries’ transitional justice periods and the creation of memory sites has been widespread. In this article, we focus on visits in 2017 and 2019 to the Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusi…
Memories I want to remember, memories I want to forget
Latin American migration to Australia spans over five decades. Despite growing Latin American diasporas in Australia, little is known in public imaginaries about the difficult histories, desires and struggles that have shaped those who fled their countries due to conflict and dictatorships. This article draws from fifteen in-depth interviews with Spanish-speaking migrants from post-conflict and dictatorial Latin America living in Australia. Engag…
The “White middle-class farming woman”
We would be dead in the water without our social media
It is widely understood that climate change transforms rural communities’ economic activities that have historically relied on farming through off-farm income for economic stability and mitigation. Entrepreneurship has become a central feature of the diversification of rural labor, but there is still a need to document how rural women operationalize entrepreneurship in their communities. We use three narrative interviews to examine how settler fa…
Negotiating 'ideal worker' and intensive mothering ideologies
Individualized, maternalist and marketized discourses of childcare are pervasive in Australia as they are in other liberal welfare states. Responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on mothers to carry out most childcare work themselves or to arrange informal or paid childcare. One of the key tasks for most employed mothers is transporting children alongside their commuting journeys. In this context we used mapping/graphic elicitation interviews wit…
Extractivismo y despojo territorial en el campo colombiano
El despojo territorial vinculado a las prácticas extractivas puede rastrearse a la colonización de Abya Yala. Partiendo de un compromiso decolonial, en este artículo problematizo las nociones de despojo y extractivismo como una consecuencia meramente de la guerra en Colombia y narro su presencia en los territorios de las mujeres campesinas. Con base en los conceptos de la colonialidad del poder y la colonialidad de género, en este artículo relato…
An agenda for Australian rural sociology
In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude class and race, as is demonstrated in our analy…
Sentipensando and Unlearning
Decolonial Feminisms
Introduction
Politics of Place from the Home and the Vereda
Conclusion
Territorio Cuerpo-tierra and Colombian Women’s Organised Struggles
Violences in the Territories and Body-Lands
Sisterhood and affective politics
This article narrates the affects and experiences of the CaiRollers, the first and only roller derby team in Egypt. Through visual affective discourse analysis of their Instagram account and interviews with team members, the article addresses the question: What do physical practices such as roller derby 'do' in e/affecting and mobilising change? In conversation with feminisms from the Middle East, our analysis highlights how the team's 'sisterhoo…
The politics of memory in post-accord Colombia
This article contributes to critical heritage debates through exploring the politics of memory in the Colombian peace process with the left-wing guerrilla group FARC-EP. Following the signature of the Peace Accord in 2016 with the FARC-EP, the current right-wing government’s (2018–2022) denialist politics have resulted in a lack of compliance of the Accord and a ‘battle for memory’. In a context of ongoing conflict and violence, I present the int…
Extractivism and Territorial Dispossession in Rural Colombia
Linked to extractive practices, territorial dispossession can be traced back to the colonisation of Abya Yala. From a decolonial commitment, this article complicates notions of dispossession and extractivism as merely emerging from war in Colombia and focuses on their presence in Campesinas territories. Based on the conceptualisations of the coloniality of power and coloniality of gender, I narrate how territorial dispossession and extractivism a…
We are not poor things
In this article, I use Lorena Cabnal's notion of territorio cuerpo-tierra to analyse seventeen in-depth interviews with women leaders of rural social movements and other organisations in Colombia . In the interviews, social leaders condemn violence that is epistemic, systemic, militarised and that permeates all ambits of life. They denounce how the coloniality of power operates, while at the same time they propose alternatives for a better life f…
Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology
Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies. This article presents results from an Australian study on redesigning and delivering an introductory sociology course using a combination of such models. Four central elements of the redesign are highlighted: overall course format; use of mini-lecture…
Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place
Negotiating 'ideal worker' and intensive mothering ideologies
Individualized, maternalist and marketized discourses of childcare are pervasive in Australia as they are in other liberal welfare states. Responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on mothers to carry out most childcare work themselves or to arrange informal or paid childcare. One of the key tasks for most employed mothers is transporting children alongside their commuting journeys. In this context we used mapping/graphic elicitation interviews wit…
We are not poor things
In this article, I use Lorena Cabnal's notion of territorio cuerpo-tierra to analyse seventeen in-depth interviews with women leaders of rural social movements and other organisations in Colombia . In the interviews, social leaders condemn violence that is epistemic, systemic, militarised and that permeates all ambits of life. They denounce how the coloniality of power operates, while at the same time they propose alternatives for a better life f…
The Embodied Countryside
This article contributes to conceptualisations of the countryside as an embodied space through a reflective engagement with the use of participatory methods with the campesinas (peasant women) of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in Colombia. The key aim of the article is to explore how the embodied everyday experiences of the field and the methodologies associated to these are marked by place. To do so, I focus on two empirical asp…
The “White middle-class farming woman”
Sisterhood and affective politics
This article narrates the affects and experiences of the CaiRollers, the first and only roller derby team in Egypt. Through visual affective discourse analysis of their Instagram account and interviews with team members, the article addresses the question: What do physical practices such as roller derby 'do' in e/affecting and mobilising change? In conversation with feminisms from the Middle East, our analysis highlights how the team's 'sisterhoo…
The politics of memory in post-accord Colombia
This article contributes to critical heritage debates through exploring the politics of memory in the Colombian peace process with the left-wing guerrilla group FARC-EP. Following the signature of the Peace Accord in 2016 with the FARC-EP, the current right-wing government’s (2018–2022) denialist politics have resulted in a lack of compliance of the Accord and a ‘battle for memory’. In a context of ongoing conflict and violence, I present the int…
White Women Smiling? Media Representations of Women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
In this article we analyze images of sportswomen from four media outlets over the course of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. Through visual discourse analysis we find that despite structural changes to increase gender equality at the Commonwealth Games—which for the first time ensured equal opportunities for men and women to win medals—sportswomen were still depicted in a very narrow way, and intersectional representations wer…
We would be dead in the water without our social media
It is widely understood that climate change transforms rural communities’ economic activities that have historically relied on farming through off-farm income for economic stability and mitigation. Entrepreneurship has become a central feature of the diversification of rural labor, but there is still a need to document how rural women operationalize entrepreneurship in their communities. We use three narrative interviews to examine how settler fa…
The global countryside
This article utilises a gender lens to consider the notion of the ‘global countryside’ through a case study with four peasant Colombian women living in the mountain town of Toca, Boyacá. In seeking a bottom-up understanding of rural globalisation, as it is experienced in the everyday lives of peasant women in Colombia, we drew on a methodology that included participant observation and photo elicitation interviews. Data reveal the inflections and …
Reckoning with truth globally
This Special Issue interrogates the limitations and possibilities of truth within global efforts to address historical injustice. Over the past 30 years truth commissions have become ubiquitous in response to authoritarian regimes and colonial legacies. However, their ability to facilitate meaningful transformation is increasingly contested. In this editorial we explore what a decolonial reckoning, rather than reconciliation, with the past and co…
An agenda for Australian rural sociology
In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude class and race, as is demonstrated in our analy…
Extractivism and Territorial Dispossession in Rural Colombia
Linked to extractive practices, territorial dispossession can be traced back to the colonisation of Abya Yala. From a decolonial commitment, this article complicates notions of dispossession and extractivism as merely emerging from war in Colombia and focuses on their presence in Campesinas territories. Based on the conceptualisations of the coloniality of power and coloniality of gender, I narrate how territorial dispossession and extractivism a…
Memories I want to remember, memories I want to forget
Latin American migration to Australia spans over five decades. Despite growing Latin American diasporas in Australia, little is known in public imaginaries about the difficult histories, desires and struggles that have shaped those who fled their countries due to conflict and dictatorships. This article draws from fifteen in-depth interviews with Spanish-speaking migrants from post-conflict and dictatorial Latin America living in Australia. Engag…
Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night
This article traces stories of singular footsteps taken on a collective meandering through Brisbane city, as a pedagogical experiment in writing for geographers. The diverse encounters recounted here took place as part of an extended workshop on the topic of light, beginning with an afternoon discussion, and ending in an evening walk through the illuminated city. This paper aims to do two things through the example of light: firstly, it explores …
Extractivismo y despojo territorial en el campo colombiano
El despojo territorial vinculado a las prácticas extractivas puede rastrearse a la colonización de Abya Yala. Partiendo de un compromiso decolonial, en este artículo problematizo las nociones de despojo y extractivismo como una consecuencia meramente de la guerra en Colombia y narro su presencia en los territorios de las mujeres campesinas. Con base en los conceptos de la colonialidad del poder y la colonialidad de género, en este artículo relato…
Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology
Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies. This article presents results from an Australian study on redesigning and delivering an introductory sociology course using a combination of such models. Four central elements of the redesign are highlighted: overall course format; use of mini-lecture…
The Australian country girl
Catherine Driscoll's book, The Australian Country Girl, is an important contribution in rendering visible the figure of ‘the Australian country girl’ who, as she says, has typically been marginalised or forgotten in the national imagination. Drawing on her background in cultural studies, Driscoll contributes to various areas of the discipline including geographies of gender, rurality and culture
The global countryside
This article utilises a gender lens to consider the notion of the ‘global countryside’ through a case study with four peasant Colombian women living in the mountain town of Toca, Boyacá. In seeking a bottom-up understanding of rural globalisation, as it is experienced in the everyday lives of peasant women in Colombia, we drew on a methodology that included participant observation and photo elicitation interviews. Data reveal the inflections and …
Introduction
Editorial introductions to special issues have a number of generic features. They typically include a review of the literature, for example, and a discussion of areas requiring additional research. As we discussed these generic dimensions in preparing to write this paper, we agreed that they should be rightly bypassed in this instance as they have been comprehensively addressed in recent articles published elsewhere (e.g. Pini & Bhopal, 2017; Pin…
The Embodied Countryside
This article contributes to conceptualisations of the countryside as an embodied space through a reflective engagement with the use of participatory methods with the campesinas (peasant women) of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in Colombia. The key aim of the article is to explore how the embodied everyday experiences of the field and the methodologies associated to these are marked by place. To do so, I focus on two empirical asp…
Experiential Attunements in an Illuminated City at Night
This article traces stories of singular footsteps taken on a collective meandering through Brisbane city, as a pedagogical experiment in writing for geographers. The diverse encounters recounted here took place as part of an extended workshop on the topic of light, beginning with an afternoon discussion, and ending in an evening walk through the illuminated city. This paper aims to do two things through the example of light: firstly, it explores …
White Women Smiling? Media Representations of Women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
In this article we analyze images of sportswomen from four media outlets over the course of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. Through visual discourse analysis we find that despite structural changes to increase gender equality at the Commonwealth Games—which for the first time ensured equal opportunities for men and women to win medals—sportswomen were still depicted in a very narrow way, and intersectional representations wer…
Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology
Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies. This article presents results from an Australian study on redesigning and delivering an introductory sociology course using a combination of such models. Four central elements of the redesign are highlighted: overall course format; use of mini-lecture…
Decolonial Feminisms, Power and Place
Decolonial Feminisms, Power, and Place
Sentipensando and Unlearning
Decolonial Feminisms
Introduction
Politics of Place from the Home and the Vereda
Conclusion
Territorio Cuerpo-tierra and Colombian Women’s Organised Struggles
Violences in the Territories and Body-Lands
Sisterhood and affective politics
This article narrates the affects and experiences of the CaiRollers, the first and only roller derby team in Egypt. Through visual affective discourse analysis of their Instagram account and interviews with team members, the article addresses the question: What do physical practices such as roller derby 'do' in e/affecting and mobilising change? In conversation with feminisms from the Middle East, our analysis highlights how the team's 'sisterhoo…
The politics of memory in post-accord Colombia
This article contributes to critical heritage debates through exploring the politics of memory in the Colombian peace process with the left-wing guerrilla group FARC-EP. Following the signature of the Peace Accord in 2016 with the FARC-EP, the current right-wing government’s (2018–2022) denialist politics have resulted in a lack of compliance of the Accord and a ‘battle for memory’. In a context of ongoing conflict and violence, I present the int…
Extractivism and Territorial Dispossession in Rural Colombia
Linked to extractive practices, territorial dispossession can be traced back to the colonisation of Abya Yala. From a decolonial commitment, this article complicates notions of dispossession and extractivism as merely emerging from war in Colombia and focuses on their presence in Campesinas territories. Based on the conceptualisations of the coloniality of power and coloniality of gender, I narrate how territorial dispossession and extractivism a…
We are not poor things
In this article, I use Lorena Cabnal's notion of territorio cuerpo-tierra to analyse seventeen in-depth interviews with women leaders of rural social movements and other organisations in Colombia . In the interviews, social leaders condemn violence that is epistemic, systemic, militarised and that permeates all ambits of life. They denounce how the coloniality of power operates, while at the same time they propose alternatives for a better life f…
The “White middle-class farming woman”
We would be dead in the water without our social media
It is widely understood that climate change transforms rural communities’ economic activities that have historically relied on farming through off-farm income for economic stability and mitigation. Entrepreneurship has become a central feature of the diversification of rural labor, but there is still a need to document how rural women operationalize entrepreneurship in their communities. We use three narrative interviews to examine how settler fa…
Negotiating 'ideal worker' and intensive mothering ideologies
Individualized, maternalist and marketized discourses of childcare are pervasive in Australia as they are in other liberal welfare states. Responsibility is overwhelmingly placed on mothers to carry out most childcare work themselves or to arrange informal or paid childcare. One of the key tasks for most employed mothers is transporting children alongside their commuting journeys. In this context we used mapping/graphic elicitation interviews wit…
Extractivismo y despojo territorial en el campo colombiano
El despojo territorial vinculado a las prácticas extractivas puede rastrearse a la colonización de Abya Yala. Partiendo de un compromiso decolonial, en este artículo problematizo las nociones de despojo y extractivismo como una consecuencia meramente de la guerra en Colombia y narro su presencia en los territorios de las mujeres campesinas. Con base en los conceptos de la colonialidad del poder y la colonialidad de género, en este artículo relato…
An agenda for Australian rural sociology
In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude class and race, as is demonstrated in our analy…
Sociology (27 obras) · Political science (24 obras) · Gender Studies (18 obras) · Law (14 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Social science (8 obras) · Art (7 obras) · Colonialism (7 obras) · Rural development and sustainability (7 obras)