Los pueblos del agua. colonización agraria y control social en la provincia de Cáceres durante la dictadura franquista (original) (raw)

Los pueblos del agua. colonización agraria y control social en la provincia de Cáceres durante la dictadura franquista

The start of the dictatorship marked the beginning of a colonizing project focused on the occupa- tion of new spaces for a new agricultural and industrial policy. This process meant a whole program of social engineering that decisively changed the environment and the cultural landscape of entire rural regions for the sake of a certain idea of progress and modernity, similar to the initiate in other totalitarian states. Extremadura will become one of the areas on which this model is implemented. The creation of more than sixty new villages, twenty of them in the province of Caceres, led to the creation of a new economic and social landscape. The consequences of this phenomenon are still manifesting today.