APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY TO UNDERSTAND AND MEDIATE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE, ANIMALS, AND LANDSCAPES
Hi, I’m Lisa (Liza) McClure — anthropologist and storyteller.
I study and facilitate relationships between people, animals, and environments through an
interdisciplinary approach that combines ethnography, GIS, and visual anthropology.
My work explores not only multispecies coexistence and conflict — from the return of large
carnivores to models of sustainable tourism in the Alps and North-Eastern Italy — but also the social and cultural
transformations shaping contemporary communities: shifts in livelihoods and mobility, new
ways of inhabiting landscapes, and emerging forms of citizenship and participation.
What I do
I collaborate with institutions, local communities, and organizations to design participatory
strategies, visual tools, and mediation practices that help interpret territories as complex
networks of human and more-than-human relations.
