Laura Rodriguez Castro

Biography

Dr Laura Rodriguez Castro is a Vice-Chancellor Senior Research Fellow and educator at the Faculty of Education's Sustainability, Environment and the Arts in Education Research Cluster at Southern Cross University. She is also the Secretary for the Association of Iberian and Latin America Studies of Australasia and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Intercultural Studies. Her research focuses on Southern knowledges of decoloniality and feminisms, critical public pedagogies, memory studies and rurality. Her work also contributes to methodological debates on arts, visual and participatory methods. Laura’s book with PalgraveDecolonial Feminisms, Power and Place: Sentipensando with Rural Women in Colombia (2021) explores how rural women enact and imagine decolonial feminist worlds.