For over a decade, Noor-Sharina Grondin has been developing a career at the crossroads of socio-cultural activities, popular education and teaching, particularly in French and history-geography. These experiences have led her to explore the links between transmission, memory and creation, and to reflect on issues of representation in post-colonial societies.
A researcher in contemporary history and art history, she has been devoting her thesis to Martinique's urban musical cultures since 2008, with a particular focus on the circulation of dancehall shatta. Her research examines these aesthetics as spaces for the affirmation and production of feminine and feminist discourses, but also as territories of identity, gender and bodily performance. Combining social history, musicology, gender studies, dance anthropology and postcolonial studies, Noor-Sharina Grondin's work is at once critical, sensitive and committed to contemporary cultural practices in the Caribbean.
