Florence Brisset-Foucault was CGHR’s second postdoctoral scholar on the ‘New Communication Technologies and Citizen-led Governance in Africa’ research project. Her interests were in political imaginaries and processes of state formation in Africa, and she worked on a variety of topics with a focus on East Africa, from the contemporary manifestations of nationalism in Buganda to the history and sociology of the media, and practices of oratory (especially ‘street parliaments’ and radio talk shows), as well as political education. She was also a member of several research projects focused on electoral politics in Uganda and in Kenya. She was a member of the Association des Chercheurs de Politique Africaine (ACPA) as well as the Groupe d’Initiatives et de Recherches sur l’Afrique (GIRAF). Prior to joining CGHR, Florence completed her PhD in political science at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, for which she explored repertoires of criticism and imaginaries of citizenship in contemporary Uganda through the analysis of open radio debates (ebimeeza).
Dr Florence Brisset-Foucault
