PhD Researcher - Multispecies Relations
Work Package
Maya is situated in the ‘multispecies relations’ work package, which aims to explore the role of multispecies entanglements in configuring, challenging and shaping sustainability practices in and around the greenhouse, as well as their impact on food futures.
This strand of the project asks: How do multispecies relations in the greenhouse shape and change sustainability? Which multispecies relations are celebrated, and which are discarded, and what notions of sustainability arise from these entanglements?
Biography
Maya is an anthropologist, artist and chronic illness advocate, and is currently doing her PhD in the VITALGREENHOUSE project based at the Meertens Insistute. Her work draws on care studies, multispecies relations, Science and Technology Studies, and often explores the echoes between planetary health and bodily health. Her work often uses autoethnography, participatory research methods and artistic practices to explore how particular forms on microbial intimacy are created when living with chronic infection or disease, and how these can be used to re-imagine alternative forms of radical care, intimacy, disability and what it means to live a ‘good life’.
She is the founder of the Queer Sanitorium, a roving material creative space that examines queer, multispecies and crip practices of ‘health’ and ‘wellbeing’ through the healing power of collective crafting, eating and feeding. Maya completed her Masters in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam in 2020, investigating ‘good’ care for chronic vulval pain and is a graduate of the Gramounce Food and Art Alternative masters. She currently resides in Amsterdam.
Publications
(Lane, C. and Lane, M.) ‘Listening in Slug Time’. Seismograf (forthcoming)
Lane, M. (2024)‘Ginger Care-all: Small fires of resistance in chronically sick bodies’ Cranberry Juice Collective.
Lane, M (2023) ‘The multispecies microbial vulva: Exploring multispecies care, chronic infections and deviant vulvas’ KLU feminist Perspectives.