Marie Nathalie LeBlanc (Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada)

Submitted: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:01:12 -0400



Marie Nathalie LeBlanc
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Concordia University
1455, de Maisonneuve West
Montréal
Québec
Canada
H3G 1M8

phone:  (514) 848-2142
fax:    (514) 848-4539
e-mail: marienat@sympatico.ca


Web-page: http://132.205.57.9/SocAnth/LeBlanc_web.htm




Areas of research:  West Africa (Côte d'Ivoire and Mali), Quebec

Research Interests

- Religion in a post-colonial context (Islam and Christianity)
- ethnicity and international migration
- visual anthropology and photography
- trans-nationalism and socio-economic networks
- popular culture
- youth
- women, family and marriage

Projects:

(1) "Média visuels modernes, notions de féminité et
de masculinité, et rapports de couple à Ségou, Mali."

- Individual research within the research unit: Entre global et local:
médias visuels et dynamiques identitaires féminines en
Afrique de l'Ouest; Unit coordinator: Jean-François Werner Institut
de Recherche et Développement, France); CODESRIA (Sénégal)
et Institut de Recherche et Développement
(France); 2001-2003.

(2) "The construction of spaces of identification: Social and material
networks among French-speaking West Africans in Montreal, Canada,"
General Research Funds, Concordia University, 1999-2000 competition,
2000-2001 and SSHRC Special 1999-2000 competition, 1999-2000

(3) "Les processsus d'identification chez les jeunes Chrétiens et
Musulmans en Côte d'Ivoire", FCAR-Nouveau chercheur, 1999-2002

(4) "Les enfants des mariages mixtes", in collaboration with Deirdre
Meintel (Département d'anthropologie, Université de
Montréal) and Victor Piché (Département de
Démographie, Université  de Montréal), Conseil
Québécois de la Recherche Sociale (CQRS), 1999-2000

(5) Between Tradition and Religion: Youth, Change and Social Legitimacy,
FRDP-Start-Up grant, Concordia University, 1998-2001


Selected publications

2000   "Fashion and the Politics of Identity: Versioning Womanhood and
Muslimhood in the face of Tradition and Modernity", Africa, 70: 3:
443-481.

2000   "From Ethnicity to Islam: Social change and processes of
identification amongst Muslim youth in Bouaké, Côte
d'Ivoire," Paideuma, 46 : 85-109.

1999   "The Production of Islamic Identities Through Knowledge Claims in
Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire," African Affairs, 98 (393):
485-508.

1996   "Géographie identitaire des individus et des institutions
d'origine malienne à Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire. Notes de
Recherche," Bulletin du GIDIS-Côte d'Ivoire, 14: 59-74.