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Joséphine Foucher is an interdisciplinary scholar with a background in political and cultural sociology and art history. Her research focuses on the artistic creation under constraint and the intricate relationship between politics and aesthetics. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh in 2024, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Her dissertation examined the work of contemporary dissident Cuban artists, exploring how aesthetic experiences can provide insights into subjective moral realms within the political framework of the Cuban Revolution. Through her research, she highlights the unique insights offered by aesthetic encounters, particularly those gained from artistic activism. Her research interests include performance art, diasporic aesthetics, dissident art, and transnational artistic movements, particularly in postcolonial feminist contexts within Latin America and the Caribbean during the post-Cold War era. Joséphine is also keen on experimenting with phenomenological approaches to art analysis.
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