Haeden Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haeden Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haeden |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6319-8507 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Living With Latent Waste
Humanity lives amid the sedimented remains of two centuries of industrial waste. This is the so‐called “Anthropocene,” an age in which every inch of the globe has been transformed by an industrial capitalist system that demands accelerating production, endless frontiers of extraction, and the constant disposal of waste. While “disposed of” from the perspective of capital, persistent waste retains biophysical capacities that transform landscapes a…
Taking Our Water for the City
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities
A Monstrous Growth
This paper traces the history of Caragana arborescens, a shrub which has flourished for a hundred years in the polluted industrial landscape of Mill Creek Ravine, Edmonton. While now considered an invasive plant, caragana was once viewed as a vitally important species in the colonial settlement and transformation of the Canadian prairies. Arguing against the view of caragana as simply an extension of settler colonialism, or as an embodiment of in…
Abandonment
The Ecological Life of Industrial Waste
The post-depositional afterlife of an archaeological site is often viewed as the least important aspect of its history and outside of traditional archaeological interest. In the case of industrial sites, this elision ignores one of the most important aspects of industrial history, namely the long-term effects of toxic waste. In an era where industrial pollution and anthropogenic climate change are rapidly changing the future of life on this plane…
Counter-infrastructure in the US-Mexico borderlands
Massive infrastructures of transportation and border security, designed to control flows of people and things, dominate the contemporary US–Mexico border. Together, these material projects work to inscribe the hegemonic processes of neoliberal capitalism and national sovereignty onto the physical landscape and into everyday life, giving them an aura of inevitability and permanence. Using archaeology, we challenge this narrative by exploring the c…
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Life on the fence line. Early 20th-century life in Ross Acreage
Despite widespread attention to the recent past as an archaeological topic, few archaeologists have attended to the particular social and ecological stakes of one of the most defining material features of contemporary life: the long-term effects of toxic industrial waste. Identifying the present era as the high Capitalocene, this article highlights the contemporary as a period caught between the boom-and-bust cycles of capitalist production and t…
The Arrival of Tradition
Tradition is a paradoxical concept that, on the one hand, defines a set of practices as external or resistant to the dynamics of global modern society but, on the other hand, makes sense of these practices in references to modernity itself. Colonial scholarship has struggled with this paradox, taking the appearance of tradition as situated outside modernity at face value. By historicizing the logical form of the concept of tradition, this article…
Surveilling Surveillance
This paper examines how mapping technology is central to the operation of the United States Border Patrol security apparatus on the US/Mexico Border, and explores how the very same mapping technology can be used in critique this security project. Drawing on the concept of counter-mapping, we use spatial data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project – a long-term anthropological project aimed at understanding various elements of the violent…
Surveilling Surveillance
This paper examines how mapping technology is central to the operation of the United States Border Patrol security apparatus on the US/Mexico Border, and explores how the very same mapping technology can be used in critique this security project. Drawing on the concept of counter-mapping, we use spatial data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project – a long-term anthropological project aimed at understanding various elements of the violent…
The Ecological Life of Industrial Waste
The post-depositional afterlife of an archaeological site is often viewed as the least important aspect of its history and outside of traditional archaeological interest. In the case of industrial sites, this elision ignores one of the most important aspects of industrial history, namely the long-term effects of toxic waste. In an era where industrial pollution and anthropogenic climate change are rapidly changing the future of life on this plane…
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Life on the fence line. Early 20th-century life in Ross Acreage
Despite widespread attention to the recent past as an archaeological topic, few archaeologists have attended to the particular social and ecological stakes of one of the most defining material features of contemporary life: the long-term effects of toxic industrial waste. Identifying the present era as the high Capitalocene, this article highlights the contemporary as a period caught between the boom-and-bust cycles of capitalist production and t…
Counter-infrastructure in the US-Mexico borderlands
Massive infrastructures of transportation and border security, designed to control flows of people and things, dominate the contemporary US–Mexico border. Together, these material projects work to inscribe the hegemonic processes of neoliberal capitalism and national sovereignty onto the physical landscape and into everyday life, giving them an aura of inevitability and permanence. Using archaeology, we challenge this narrative by exploring the c…
Abandonment
Surveilling Surveillance
This paper examines how mapping technology is central to the operation of the United States Border Patrol security apparatus on the US/Mexico Border, and explores how the very same mapping technology can be used in critique this security project. Drawing on the concept of counter-mapping, we use spatial data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project – a long-term anthropological project aimed at understanding various elements of the violent…
The Arrival of Tradition
Tradition is a paradoxical concept that, on the one hand, defines a set of practices as external or resistant to the dynamics of global modern society but, on the other hand, makes sense of these practices in references to modernity itself. Colonial scholarship has struggled with this paradox, taking the appearance of tradition as situated outside modernity at face value. By historicizing the logical form of the concept of tradition, this article…
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Life on the fence line. Early 20th-century life in Ross Acreage
Despite widespread attention to the recent past as an archaeological topic, few archaeologists have attended to the particular social and ecological stakes of one of the most defining material features of contemporary life: the long-term effects of toxic industrial waste. Identifying the present era as the high Capitalocene, this article highlights the contemporary as a period caught between the boom-and-bust cycles of capitalist production and t…
Counter-infrastructure in the US-Mexico borderlands
Massive infrastructures of transportation and border security, designed to control flows of people and things, dominate the contemporary US–Mexico border. Together, these material projects work to inscribe the hegemonic processes of neoliberal capitalism and national sovereignty onto the physical landscape and into everyday life, giving them an aura of inevitability and permanence. Using archaeology, we challenge this narrative by exploring the c…
The Ecological Life of Industrial Waste
The post-depositional afterlife of an archaeological site is often viewed as the least important aspect of its history and outside of traditional archaeological interest. In the case of industrial sites, this elision ignores one of the most important aspects of industrial history, namely the long-term effects of toxic waste. In an era where industrial pollution and anthropogenic climate change are rapidly changing the future of life on this plane…
Abandonment
A Monstrous Growth
This paper traces the history of Caragana arborescens, a shrub which has flourished for a hundred years in the polluted industrial landscape of Mill Creek Ravine, Edmonton. While now considered an invasive plant, caragana was once viewed as a vitally important species in the colonial settlement and transformation of the Canadian prairies. Arguing against the view of caragana as simply an extension of settler colonialism, or as an embodiment of in…
Taking Our Water for the City
Toxic Waste, Worried Communities
Living With Latent Waste
Humanity lives amid the sedimented remains of two centuries of industrial waste. This is the so‐called “Anthropocene,” an age in which every inch of the globe has been transformed by an industrial capitalist system that demands accelerating production, endless frontiers of extraction, and the constant disposal of waste. While “disposed of” from the perspective of capital, persistent waste retains biophysical capacities that transform landscapes a…
Archaeology (8 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · History (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)