Michelle Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615335 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8602-5991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Free Luigi Between Playful Resistance and Rupture
On December 4th, 2024, Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare was killed in New York City. The shooting quickly galvanized public critiques of the American healthcare system. Our proposal focuses upon user-generated content featuring Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect, arrested days later. Indeed, the lionization of Mangione across popular social media platforms signalled social rupture of internet practices, of generational allegiances, an…
Drawing practices as an interface for transnational collaboration: An expanded studio between Durban and Antwerp
This article explores how collective digital drawing can function as a minimal interface for building and sustaining transnational collaboration. It traces the development of a partnership between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the University of Kwazulu-Natal, initiated through a short-term international project and later structurally anchored through recurring mobility and exchange frameworks. Central to this collaboration is FRAMED …
Transphobic Memes in the Quebec Alternative News Industry
In this paper, we explore transnational discursive campaigns that use online popular culture to consolidate a “countercultural” vision of hard to extreme right politics. Hyperpartisan sites form a “mirror universe” or alternate news industry, counterposing their passionate partisanship against what they deem the fraudulent objectivity of mainstream media. In our preliminary study, we noted that “anti-woke” hashtags and memes were heavily freighte…
« Je ne suis pas raciste, mais je suis réaliste »: Cadrage et stratégies motivationnelles d’influenceuses anti-mesures sanitaires du Québec
Traditionnellement, les femmes étaient perçues comme accessoires dans les mouvements des droites extrêmes. Durant la pandémie, plusieurs influenceur·euses ont fait preuve d’opportunisme pour augmenter leur nombre d’abonné·es (Stewart et al., 2023). Dans cet article, la théorie du cadrage de l’action collective est mobilisée pour analyser le discours tenu sur Facebook par trois influenceuses anti-mesures sanitaires lors de la période d’instauratio…
Posthumous Portraits in Motion: Experimental Animation, Metamorphosis and Reflections on Mortality
This article details an oil paint-on-glass animation depicting posthumous portraits of unclaimed deceased from a Johannesburg mortuary in South Africa. The creative project engages with Western traditions of posthumous, focusing on the iconography of the corpse. The author explores how these traditions are approached through the moving image, metamorphosis and experimental animation processes. The animation uses metamorphosis not just as a symbol…
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts
In 2008, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada engaged in a public project of national reconciliation to address the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism including the disproportionate number of Indigenous adults and youth who are held in remand facilities awaiting trial or sentence as well as those who are convicted and sentenced to periods of incarceration. Efforts to further reconciliation by reducing Indigenous incarceration rat…
The “Big Man” as Fictional Archetype in the Work of Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
The “Big Man” phenomenon is often associated with the African dictator. However, with the rise of modern “strongman” leaders such as Trump, Putin, and Xi, it is not surprising that the notion of the Big Man has come to represent a global condition, one that not only characterises African dictatorship but that also has a precedent in Western tradition. A potent visual and conceptual fictional archetype for the Big Man can be found in Alfred Jarry'…
Introduction to Come to Terms: Accomplice
New Directions, Continued Dialogues
Fictions of Prevention: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Narratives of Responsibility
This article starts with a question: what sociopolitical and/or sociocultural factors are flattened in prevention narratives? Focusing on the case of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder ( FASD ) and drawing on narratives and practices that argue FASD is 100% preventable—this article argues these fictions of prevention strip the very context within which a particular medical phenomenon is occurring. Focusing on legislation in Alaska and proposed amend…
Workshop Scribbles, Policy Work and Impact: Anthropological Sensibilities in Praxis at an Fasd Workshop
The workshop ended early. A 'pleasant surprise' we were told by participants. As the room emptied, we surveyed the remains of the day -paper cups, programmes and abandoned business cards. It was the second day of a two-day event focused on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) that targeted 'frontline' workers. Now, we had one hour until the closing reception. Moving around the room, we decided that the waste from the workshop would have to wai…
Cracks and Contestation: Toward an Ecology of Graffiti and Abatement
This article argues that graffiti, through their vitality, illustrate the battle over urban enclosures and the valorization of private property. We focus on abatement—the act of removing graffiti—and by exploring graffiti and abatement we investigate mechanisms and ideologies that draw people into struggles over urban space. In this battle over space, where the state and capital attempt to assert control, a flick of paint serves as a threat as it…
Adolescent Opiate Exposure in the Female Rat Induces Subtle Alterations in Maternal Care and Transgenerational Effects on Play Behavior
The non-medical use of prescription opiates, such as Vicodin(®) and MSContin(®), has increased dramatically over the past decade. Of particular concern is the rising popularity of these drugs in adolescent female populations. Use during this critical developmental period could have significant long-term consequences for both the female user as well as potential effects on her future offspring. To address this issue, we have begun modeling adolesc…
The space between the steps: Reckoning in an Era of Reconciliation
For over 100 years the government of Canada operated residential schools for Aboriginal children that required children be taken out of their homes and educated away from their families. These schools became sites of widespread abuse, the legacy of which continues to influence the lives of those who attended and the generations that followed. As Canada moves through a reconciliation process that includes reparation payments, official apologies, a…
Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics
Spouses' Experiences of Their Partners' Absences Due to Frequent Business Travel
This study explores spouses' experiences of their partners' absence due to frequent business travel. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five male and five female participants, all of whom had at least one child living with and dependent on them. The findings indicate that respondents generally do not find their spouses' absence to be inherently stressful. However, negative outcomes were more common than positive ones. Various dynamics…
Demographic Characteristics and Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness in a Multisite Study
Creole Language in Kingston: The Emergence of Basilectal Varieties—1692–1865
This paper is about contact. Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, is presented as a contact setting in an urban environment, and use is made of the components of the setting to analyse the influences on the formation of basilectal varieties there. In this paper, focus is, on the role which external ecologies played in the early development of the lectal varieties closest to the basilect in Kingston.The study tracks the peopling of Kingston from its …
Demographic Characteristics and Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness in a Multisite Study
Cracks and Contestation: Toward an Ecology of Graffiti and Abatement
This article argues that graffiti, through their vitality, illustrate the battle over urban enclosures and the valorization of private property. We focus on abatement—the act of removing graffiti—and by exploring graffiti and abatement we investigate mechanisms and ideologies that draw people into struggles over urban space. In this battle over space, where the state and capital attempt to assert control, a flick of paint serves as a threat as it…
Spouses' Experiences of Their Partners' Absences Due to Frequent Business Travel
This study explores spouses' experiences of their partners' absence due to frequent business travel. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five male and five female participants, all of whom had at least one child living with and dependent on them. The findings indicate that respondents generally do not find their spouses' absence to be inherently stressful. However, negative outcomes were more common than positive ones. Various dynamics…
Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics
The space between the steps: Reckoning in an Era of Reconciliation
For over 100 years the government of Canada operated residential schools for Aboriginal children that required children be taken out of their homes and educated away from their families. These schools became sites of widespread abuse, the legacy of which continues to influence the lives of those who attended and the generations that followed. As Canada moves through a reconciliation process that includes reparation payments, official apologies, a…
Creole Language in Kingston: The Emergence of Basilectal Varieties—1692–1865
This paper is about contact. Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, is presented as a contact setting in an urban environment, and use is made of the components of the setting to analyse the influences on the formation of basilectal varieties there. In this paper, focus is, on the role which external ecologies played in the early development of the lectal varieties closest to the basilect in Kingston.The study tracks the peopling of Kingston from its …
Spouses' Experiences of Their Partners' Absences Due to Frequent Business Travel
This study explores spouses' experiences of their partners' absence due to frequent business travel. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with five male and five female participants, all of whom had at least one child living with and dependent on them. The findings indicate that respondents generally do not find their spouses' absence to be inherently stressful. However, negative outcomes were more common than positive ones. Various dynamics…
Demographic Characteristics and Employment Among People with Severe Mental Illness in a Multisite Study
Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics
Adolescent Opiate Exposure in the Female Rat Induces Subtle Alterations in Maternal Care and Transgenerational Effects on Play Behavior
The non-medical use of prescription opiates, such as Vicodin(®) and MSContin(®), has increased dramatically over the past decade. Of particular concern is the rising popularity of these drugs in adolescent female populations. Use during this critical developmental period could have significant long-term consequences for both the female user as well as potential effects on her future offspring. To address this issue, we have begun modeling adolesc…
The space between the steps: Reckoning in an Era of Reconciliation
For over 100 years the government of Canada operated residential schools for Aboriginal children that required children be taken out of their homes and educated away from their families. These schools became sites of widespread abuse, the legacy of which continues to influence the lives of those who attended and the generations that followed. As Canada moves through a reconciliation process that includes reparation payments, official apologies, a…
Workshop Scribbles, Policy Work and Impact: Anthropological Sensibilities in Praxis at an Fasd Workshop
The workshop ended early. A 'pleasant surprise' we were told by participants. As the room emptied, we surveyed the remains of the day -paper cups, programmes and abandoned business cards. It was the second day of a two-day event focused on foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) that targeted 'frontline' workers. Now, we had one hour until the closing reception. Moving around the room, we decided that the waste from the workshop would have to wai…
Cracks and Contestation: Toward an Ecology of Graffiti and Abatement
This article argues that graffiti, through their vitality, illustrate the battle over urban enclosures and the valorization of private property. We focus on abatement—the act of removing graffiti—and by exploring graffiti and abatement we investigate mechanisms and ideologies that draw people into struggles over urban space. In this battle over space, where the state and capital attempt to assert control, a flick of paint serves as a threat as it…
Fictions of Prevention: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and Narratives of Responsibility
This article starts with a question: what sociopolitical and/or sociocultural factors are flattened in prevention narratives? Focusing on the case of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder ( FASD ) and drawing on narratives and practices that argue FASD is 100% preventable—this article argues these fictions of prevention strip the very context within which a particular medical phenomenon is occurring. Focusing on legislation in Alaska and proposed amend…
New Directions, Continued Dialogues
Introduction to Come to Terms: Accomplice
The “Big Man” as Fictional Archetype in the Work of Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge
The “Big Man” phenomenon is often associated with the African dictator. However, with the rise of modern “strongman” leaders such as Trump, Putin, and Xi, it is not surprising that the notion of the Big Man has come to represent a global condition, one that not only characterises African dictatorship but that also has a precedent in Western tradition. A potent visual and conceptual fictional archetype for the Big Man can be found in Alfred Jarry'…
Risk, rights and deservedness: Navigating the tensions of Gladue, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and settler colonialism in Canadian courts
In 2008, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada engaged in a public project of national reconciliation to address the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism including the disproportionate number of Indigenous adults and youth who are held in remand facilities awaiting trial or sentence as well as those who are convicted and sentenced to periods of incarceration. Efforts to further reconciliation by reducing Indigenous incarceration rat…
« Je ne suis pas raciste, mais je suis réaliste »: Cadrage et stratégies motivationnelles d’influenceuses anti-mesures sanitaires du Québec
Traditionnellement, les femmes étaient perçues comme accessoires dans les mouvements des droites extrêmes. Durant la pandémie, plusieurs influenceur·euses ont fait preuve d’opportunisme pour augmenter leur nombre d’abonné·es (Stewart et al., 2023). Dans cet article, la théorie du cadrage de l’action collective est mobilisée pour analyser le discours tenu sur Facebook par trois influenceuses anti-mesures sanitaires lors de la période d’instauratio…
Posthumous Portraits in Motion: Experimental Animation, Metamorphosis and Reflections on Mortality
This article details an oil paint-on-glass animation depicting posthumous portraits of unclaimed deceased from a Johannesburg mortuary in South Africa. The creative project engages with Western traditions of posthumous, focusing on the iconography of the corpse. The author explores how these traditions are approached through the moving image, metamorphosis and experimental animation processes. The animation uses metamorphosis not just as a symbol…
Transphobic Memes in the Quebec Alternative News Industry
In this paper, we explore transnational discursive campaigns that use online popular culture to consolidate a “countercultural” vision of hard to extreme right politics. Hyperpartisan sites form a “mirror universe” or alternate news industry, counterposing their passionate partisanship against what they deem the fraudulent objectivity of mainstream media. In our preliminary study, we noted that “anti-woke” hashtags and memes were heavily freighte…
Free Luigi Between Playful Resistance and Rupture
On December 4th, 2024, Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare was killed in New York City. The shooting quickly galvanized public critiques of the American healthcare system. Our proposal focuses upon user-generated content featuring Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect, arrested days later. Indeed, the lionization of Mangione across popular social media platforms signalled social rupture of internet practices, of generational allegiances, an…
Drawing practices as an interface for transnational collaboration: An expanded studio between Durban and Antwerp
This article explores how collective digital drawing can function as a minimal interface for building and sustaining transnational collaboration. It traces the development of a partnership between the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the University of Kwazulu-Natal, initiated through a short-term international project and later structurally anchored through recurring mobility and exchange frameworks. Central to this collaboration is FRAMED …
Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (3 works)