Laura Cabezas Vega will join HISTAGRA as a researcher

 

Researcher Laura Cabezas Vega, winner of a Juan de Lana Cierva contract, will join the HISTAGRA Group in 2026. Her scientific work, focused on the rural world and women, with several publications and participation in conferences, will complete the group's teaching and research staff. In this case, she will strengthen the line of agricultural history and gender, while contributing with her work in research on colonisation villages, a leadership agreement by Ana Cabana Iglesia that was signed between the University of Santiago, the Castro de Rei Town Council, and the Provincial Council of Lugo.

 

On the subject of Franco's colonisation villages, Laura Cabezas' work analyses the construction of space in Franco's colonisation villages from a gender perspective. The aim is to reveal how the new urban centres, through their architectural configuration, acted as instigators of not only a spatial order, but also a social order, which determined the allocation of different uses to men and women based on the idea of male superiority. Comparing the discourse generated by the regime around sexual difference with the reality of a case study reveals the contradictions within the system itself.