ME (Marieke) Meesters, MSc MA

My work is situated in the environmental (post)humanities, and is mainly inspired by feminist new materialist and critical political ecological approaches. I am broadly interested in participation in mining, more-than-human geography, decolonizing the university, composting, and environmental and animal rights activism. I have a background in (environmental) criminology.

In my free time, I am passionate about turning my personal living environment into a local utopia that is home to a myriad of creatures, ranging from composting thermophilic bacteria to human bookworms. 

In my academic work, I explore and prefigure more-than-human relations on egalitarian terms. I have explored 'participation' from a posthumanist lens (PhD), studied Dutch agricultural transitions and sanitation futures, analyzed how human excreta can be included in more-than-human metabolisms, and more recently developed a story-telling chain that can be put to use in times of crisis.

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