Fanny Parise

About Fanny Parise

Fanny Parise is a French anthropologist who divides her time between Paris, Lausanne, and Lyon. She specializes in contemporary worlds and the evolution of lifestyles. Trained by anthropologists Lionel Obadia and Dominique Desjeux, she positions her approach at the intersection of consumer, cultural, and religious studies; while drawing inspiration from the works of Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin, and Arjun Appadurai.

She has dedicated the last decade to studying the phenomena of de-consumption and the myth of post-capitalist counterculture. A pioneer in identifying weak signals and new trends, she conducts research on the protean movement of new cultural and creative elites. She is currently finishing a book titled “Les Nouveaux Sauvages” which is expected to be published in late 2020 or early 2021 by Éditions Arkhê.
She preempts the field of the imaginary to better objectify reality and even explore the future, drawing from her numerous ethnographic experiences (Europe, Canada, Asia, Middle East, Africa) and the scientific transfer tools she develops under the brand of her collective Magical Thinking®.

She engages her research work in a process of scientific popularization through her podcast Madame l’anthropologue and the Mythologies of the Future that she co-founded. She aims to make the humanities accessible to a non-academic audience, establishing herself on the Franco-Swiss media scene to give a voice to Anthropology.

As a speaker, she designs retro-innovative interventions: she deciphers anthropological invariants to better illuminate current (structural and conjunctural) evolutions through the lens of scenario creation, tailored to each sector of activity. These scenarios materialize through the creation of unique materials and dedicated scenography.

Demonstrating great adaptability, she imagines customized conferences based on her clients’ sectors of activity. With a rigorous approach to her discipline and a strong command of current social codes, Fanny Parise tailors her discourse and conference style to her audience.

As a practitioner-researcher, she develops both academic research within the Lémanique Institute of Practical Theology at the University of Lausanne and private expertise (qualitative, quantitative, strategic) for international industrialists and retailers (consumer goods, food, luxury, housing, mobility, health, hygiene, etc).
She also teaches courses in Anthropology and Sociology of contemporary worlds to a Master’s audience at the University of Paris and Caen. She is responsible for the courses in human and social sciences at the Strate School of Design in Lyon.