{"id":8242,"date":"2019-03-12T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=8242"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:23:31","slug":"jean-michel-landry","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/people\/jean-michel-landry\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean-Michel Landry"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"areas-of-interest\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Areas of Interest<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Political Anthropology, Critical Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Religion, Gender, Migration, the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"about\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I am a socio-cultural anthropologist working in the Middle East and North America. My work combines the study of Islam, secularism, law, and ethics to develop a political anthropology of religion. Ethnographically grounded in Lebanon, my book manuscript approaches the Islamic tradition by looking at the questions that contemporary shari\u2019a scholars raise, explore, and complicate. In previous research projects, I studied religion-based family law courts as a site from which to reflect on gender relationships, pious activism and the state management of religion. Other writing projects explore areas of synergy between anthropology and the tradition of critical theory (Foucault, Benjamin, Asad).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My new ethnographic project considers the migration of Islamic family law and its enforcement in Canadian tribunals. Supported by an SSHRC Insight Grant (2018-2022; Co-PI), it seeks to understand the social and gendered implications of this transnational process. It also pays particular attention to its impact on the matrix of inter-religious relationships that ties the Canadian-Lebanese community together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the undergraduate level, I teach courses on Anthropological Theory and the Middle East. For graduate students, I am offering a seminar on Political Anthropology. I am currently accepting graduate students interested in religion, secularism, migration, or in thinking about the relationship between ethics and politics, action and subjection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"selected-publications\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>2021, Landry, Jean-Michel. \u201cFoucault on Christianity: The Impasse of Subjectivation,\u201d <em>Political Theology<\/em>, 22 (1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2020, Landry, Jean-Michel. \u201c\u00c9tica.\u201d <em>Debates do NER<\/em>, 36 (2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019, \u201cDialectic of Ijtih\u0101d. Reforming Shari\u2018a-Derived Family Law in Lebanon.\u201d <em>Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East<\/em>, 39 (3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2018, \u201cNiqab, Sunglasses, and the Sincerity of Faith.\u201d<em> The<\/em><em> Immanent Frame<\/em>, Social Science Research Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2017, (with Saba Mahmood) \u201cAnthropology of Islam,\u201d <em>Oxford Bibliographies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2016, \u201cLes territoires de Talal Asad. Pouvoir, s\u00e9cularit\u00e9, modernit\u00e9,\u201d <em>L\u2019Homme<\/em>, 217.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2009, \u201cConfession, Subjectivity, and Obedience. A Reading of Michel Foucault\u2019s Unpublished Lectures <em>On the Government of the Living<\/em>,\u201d <em>Telos<\/em>, 146: 111-123.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8244,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jean-Michel","cu_people_last_name":"Landry","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[42],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-8242","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-anthropology-faculty"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"Ph.D. in Anthropology and Critical Theory (UC Berkeley)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jeanmichel.landry@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"4098","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28807,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/8242\/revisions\/28807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=8242"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=8242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}