Tamalone van den Eijnden is a Dutch-German PhD candidate at the Section of Knowledge, Transformation & Society (KiTeS), University of Twente, the Netherlands. She also has been a three-month visiting researcher at the Posthumanities Hub in 2024. Her PhD is part of the European research collaboration BioTraCes that examines processes of transformative change in the context of biodiversity and justice. Together with her supervisors Corelia Baibarac-Duignan and Esther Turnhout and the members of their societal partner Voedselpark Amsterdam, she takes a bottom-up, activist, empirical, relational and creative perspective to examining how transformative approaches to biodiversity might look like. For this, she turns her attention particularly to speculative theories and practices of (un)commoning. Besides, she is also affiliated to the Plasticity research supported by the Center for Unusual Collaborations. This initiative brings interdisciplinary researchers together to think about the phenomenon of plasticity and take plasticity as a lens to examine milieu and meaning-making in transformative times.

Selected publications

Bellinetti, Giulia, Tamalone van den Eijnden, and Jeff Diamanti. 2024. “Ecoliteracies: Epistemic Habits and Critical Knowledge Between Arts and Science Research.” In Staying Together: NatureCulture in a Changing World, edited by Kaushani Mondal, Lexington Books.  [This is not a peer-reviewed publication]

Eijnden, Tamalone van den. 2023. “Out of the Bin, into the Open: Looking at the Mediating and Performing Material Afterlives of Data.” In Situating Data: Inquiries in Algorithmic Culture, edited by Karin van Es and Nanna Verhoeff, 103–19. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463722971.

Eijnden, Tamalone van den, Corelia Baibarac-Duignan, Michiel de Lange, and Maartje de Goede. 2022. “Materials and Modes of Translation: Re-Imagining Inclusive ‘Zero’-Waste Futures.” Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.958423.