Research and Expertise

Lauren Harding is a socio-cultural anthropologist interested in how outdoor recreation practices shape relationships with place in the context of settler-colonialism. Her past research examined wilderness tourism practices in Canadian national parks imposed on Indigenous territories. She uses qualitative methods, participatory research, and narrative analysis to understand social and cultural aspects of ecological change. She is mildly obsessed with grizzly bears, hiking, and slow travel.

• Anthropology
• Environment
• Northern Issues
• Tourism
• Wildlife

Environmental anthropology, anthropology of tourism, settler-colonial studies, human-wildlife conflict, ethnographic methods, multi-species ethnography, social anthropology, critical tourism studies, human-wildlife relations, political ecology.