Deborah Landry

Deborah LandryAreas of Interest

Anti-racist, Decolonial and Trauma Informed Pedagogies

Graffiti and Urban Performance

Municipal Bylaws

Qualitative Research: Ethnography, Phenomenology, Visual Methods, and Discourse Analysis

Sociology of Knowledge

Cultural Criminology/Cultural Geography

Joyful Bits

In June 2022, I will be thru-hiking Newfoundland and raising funds for the Chicken and Boots Bursary.

In 2020/21 and 2021/22 I was nominated as a Favourite Faculty Member by some of my learners who live in residence.

In 2019 I joined Inuk artist, parent and activist Hannah Tooktoo as her support driver/documenter as Hannah biked across Canada. Hannah’s Journey Across Canada raised awareness and over $20,000 for cultural programming and sucide prevention in her northern community of Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. Click here for an article and here for a CBC news video on the journey.

Have you ever wondered about the graffiti under the nearby Dunbar Bridge? CBC Ottawa (2015) invited me to talk about the legacy of the House of PainT community, who create and maintain this space.

In 2009, students in my Cultural Criminology class proposed to write about, and participate in, a flash mob as an optional final exam. Watch us dance here. [Published article about the activity listed below]

Selected PublicationsRefereed Journal Articles2019 Landry, D. ‘Stop calling it graffiti’: The Visual Rhetoric of Contamination, Consumption and Colonization. Current Sociology, 0011392118823830.2012 Landry, D. Are We Human? Edgework in Defiance of the Mundane and Measurable. Critical Criminology, 21(1), 1-14.2009 Landry, D. Faux Science and the Social Construction of a Risk Society: A Burkean Engagement with the CSI Debates. Journal of the Institute of Justice & International Studies, 9: 145 - 157.Refereed Chapters in Books2020 Landry, D. “The Redactasaurus Chronicles: Fear, Consumption and Graffiti Regulation in Capital City'' In S.C.J Picart (Ed.) Teratological Explorations: Monsters, Law, and Crime. Bucknell University Press: Louisburg Pennsylvania.2019 Landry, D. Listening to Streets + Watching Paint Dry: Collecting Other Forms of Data. In (Eds.) S. Kleinknecht, L. van den Scott and C. Sanders. The Craft of Qualitative Research. Canadian Scholars’ Press: 2017 Landry, D. Defensible Aesthetics: Creative Resistance to Urban Policies in Ottawa. In Avramidis and Tsilimpounidi (Eds) Graffiti, Street Art: Reading and Representing the City. Ashgate-Taylor & Francis.

Position: Contract Instructor
Email: deborahlandry@cunet.carleton.ca
Degrees: Ph.D Sociology (Carleton University)

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