Eline van Oosten

Eline is a PhD researcher in the ANIMAPOLIS project. Her research focuses on the metabolic relations between rats, humans and waste in Amsterdam and how these relations co-produce urban inequalities. She has a background in anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) and previous experience in multispecies ethnography as a junior researcher in the ‘caring for pigs’ project at the KNAW humanities cluster. In her current PhD research, she draws on the concept of metabolism at the nexus of urban political ecology, anthropology and STS, combined with work in waste and discard studies and valuation studies. Her PhD research takes three metabolic entry points into the field: bread bins, rodenticides and sewage.