Kathleen Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4459-4918 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 796 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Assessing the legacy of redlining on spatial inequities in social and environmental determinants of health
Although housing discrimination was outlawed in the United States in 1968, historic redlining remains a driver of racialized inequities in environmental health. However, there are many aspects of environmental health that are not yet well-understood in relation to redlining. We investigated the legacy of redlining on social and environmental determinants of health and the spatial distribution of these relationships across Baltimore and Philadelph…
Analyzing travel behavior differences across population groups: An explainable machine learning approach with big mobility data
Spatial patterns of rural opioid-related hospital emergency department visits: A machine learning analysis
Space-time relationships between Covid-19 vaccinations and human mobility patterns in the United States
Making Space in Geographical Analysis
In this commentary we reflect on the potential and power of geographical analysis, as a set of methods, theoretical approaches, and perspectives, to increase our understanding of how space and place matter for all . We emphasize key aspects of the field, including accessibility, urban change, and spatial interaction and behavior, providing a high‐level research agenda that indicates a variety of gaps and routes for future research that will not o…
Spatiotemporal patterns of drug use disorder in Sweden assessed using population-based registries
Persistent hotspots of DUD in Sweden were confirmed as well as new and emerging hotspots, especially in Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö. Higher correlations existed in DUD rates across registers than across gender. The findings are useful for monitoring the current drug problem and for identifying drivers underlying patterns of spread and important causal pathways to DUD
Geographic information science and the United States opioid overdose crisis: A scoping review of methods, scales, and application areas
Getting Trapped, or Capitalism's Estuaries
Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
A counterfactual analysis of opioid-involved deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic using a spatiotemporal random forest modeling approach
Analyzing Multi-Lingual Discussions of the Standard Gauge Railway Project in Kenya Using Natural Language Processing and Social Media Analysis
Development of infrastructure in Kenya, especially transportation infrastructure, began receiving partial financing investments by the Chinese government in 2014 as part of China’s broader Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). While there has been significant journalistic, academic, and governmental exploration of China’s new global investment strategies, less analysis has focused on local reactions to these new development relationships. In this study…
MD EJSCREEN v2.0: Visualizing Overburdening of Environmental Justice Issues Using the Updated Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool
Geographic information system tools analyze the environmental hazards and injustice throughout the United States. This article highlights the updated Maryland Environmental Justice Screening Tool (MD EJSCREEN v2.0), a state-specific resource for visualizing local environmental justice and health disparities in Maryland. Four new functions for screening and visualizing environmental justice indicators are described and demonstrated: the Select Fea…
Some stories, more scenes
We write to conjure a poetics of scenes at once social, dreamy, mattering, and incidental. Our collaborative project is about feeling and testing out the moments we move around in and the speculations we bring to them, generating scenes of life that are ideas of life. We try out practices of looser and sharper processing what we've seen, smelled, overheard, conjured. To move and conceptualize from within worlds is preferable to drawing a plane ab…
Understanding the Drivers of Mobility during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Florida, USA Using a Machine Learning Approach
As of March 2021, the State of Florida, U.S.A. had accounted for approximately 6.67% of total COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease) cases in the U.S. The main objective of this research is to analyze mobility patterns during a three month period in summer 2020, when COVID-19 case numbers were very high for three Florida counties, Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. To investigate patterns, as well as drivers, related to changes in m…
Incorporating space and time into random forest models for analyzing geospatial patterns of drug-related crime incidents in a major U.S. metropolitan area
Understanding collective human movement dynamics during large-scale events using big geosocial data analytics
Development of a Geographic Information Systems Mapping Tool to Measure Park Equity in Maryland
In 2008, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) developed the Maryland Park Equity Assessment Tool to visualize the socioenvironmental distribution of parks across the state and assess where resource investments would most enhance residents' access to green space. This tool, the first of its kind in Maryland (MD), represents an important advancement in environmental justice (EJ) decision making. In 2018, MDNR partnered with the autho…
Ansiedades de Influência: Teoria da Conspiração e Cultura Terapêutica na América do Milênio
Neste capítulo de livro, publicado originalmente em 2003, Susan Harding e Kathleen Stewart analisam a explosão de teorias da conspiração nos Estados Unidos do pós-Guerra. Elas evitam o apelo comum de isolar o pensamento conspiratório como mero padrão hermenêutico exótico ou tipo de ideologia específica ao tratá-lo como parte de uma "estrutura de sentimento", "sistema nervoso" e "discurso metacultural" amplo, difuso e inclusivo, apesar de atualiza…
Afterword: Worlding Refrains
Using socially-sensed data to infer ZIP level characteristics for the spatiotemporal analysis of drug-related health problems in Maryland
A Time
Couplets
“Couplets” moves back and forth, swapping thought images, turns of phrase and story lines conjured up to get inside the machine and spread of a thing. Curiosity is a thought muscle throwing weight against fake foundations. The airs of a day make rhythm promises and labor demands. Paying attention is a starting point but no guarantee when there’s no floor. Things are happening
Data Model, Event‐Oriented
The development of theories that address spatiotemporal aspects of data modeling has attracted an increasing number of researchers from different disciplines. Advancing theories and data models for events is of importance to researchers in the field of geographic information science. Many of the dynamics that users are interested in representing in geographic information systems can be understood as events. This interest in events stems from the …
Mental health and breast cancer screening utilization among older Hispanic women
Considerable racial and ethnic differences exist in the way the burden of cancer is experienced in the United States for older Hispanic women. This study utilized data from the 2008 wave of the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the mental health factors associated with older Hispanic women's participation in breast cancer screening services. Logistic regression models were used. Findings indicated that anxiety and positive affect were as…
Cultural and emotional determinants of cervical cancer screening among older Hispanic women
Older adults are at highest risk of cancer and yet have the lowest rates of cancer screening participation. Older minority adults bear the burden of cancer screening disparities leading to late stage cancer diagnoses. This investigation, utilization data from the 2008 wave of the Health and Retirement study examined the cultural and emotional factors thought to influence cervical cancer screening among older Hispanic women. We utilized logistic r…
Older Hispanic Women and Breast Cancer Screening: Do Cultural Factors Matter
High morbidity and mortality cancer rates among older minority adults underscores the importance of identifying and addressing health disparities related to age and cultural factors that may influence participation in cancer screening and early detection of disease. Disparities for Hispanic women exist in part due to behavior, including lower participation in cancer screenings. Using data from the 2008 wave of the Health and Retirement Study, thi…
Atmospheric Attunements
This paper proposes an analytic attention to the charged atmospheres of everyday life. It asks how circulating forces are generated as atmospheres per se, how they spawn worlds, animate forms of attachment and detachment, and become the live background of living in and living through things. Writing through several small cases selected out of countless potentially describable moments and scenes in which the sense of something happening becomes ta…
Nostalgia-A Polemic
A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America
A Space on the Side of the Road vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women "just settin'" track a dense social imaginary th…
Precarity's Forms
Writing matters if objects of analysis are to be understood as emergent forms with qualities, intensities, and trajectories that can be described or evoked. Writing is not epiphenomenal to thought but its medium. As it sidles up to worlds, disparate and incommensurate things throw themselves together. As it attunes, spatial and temporal dimensions come into play; writing skids over surfaces, pauses on a detail, grows capacious or pinched. Here, I…
Weak Theory in an Unfinished World
This article suggests the value of a kind of cultural theory that attends to the cultural poesis of forms of living. Its objects are textures and rhythms, trajectories, and modes of attunement, attachment, and composition. The point is not to judge the value of these objects or to somehow get their representation "right" but to wonder where they might go and what potential modes of knowing, relating, and attending to things are already present in…
Bad Endings: American Apocalypsis
Apocalypticism and millennialism are the dark and light sides of a historical sensibility transfixed by the possibility of imminent catastrophe, cosmic redemption, spiritual transformation, and a new world order. This essay briefly surveys work by anthropologists and like-minded scholars that focuses directly on endtime movements. It then reviews at more length a varied literature focusing on American apocalypticisms and millennialisms. Turning t…
Road registers
This article is an outline of a method to approach an object of analysis as generative, compositional, and immanent to ordinary ways of living and proliferating worlds. Using the case of the American road as an emergent assemblage, I trace its singular forms and the ways in which these forms register forces of all kinds. Road registers are material-symbolic composites charged with potentiality. They form links between disparate phenomena, scales,…
Regionality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathleen StewartDr. Stewart is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712; [[email protected]
The Legibilities of Mood Work
Mood is a contact zone for the strange and prolific coexistence of sense and world. An orientation alert to something already set in motion, it is a mundane register of labours to sense out what is actual and potential in an historical moment or a situation. (1) Mood work marshals bodies, objects, technologies, sensations and flights of fancy into forms of partial coherence. Its legibilities are inchoate and yet pronounced in practices, socialiti…
The Point of Precision
This essay proposes a kind of critique aimed at approaching the improvisatory conceptuality of ordinary forms emergent in everyday life. Using a slowed ethnographic attention to the immanent aesthetics of objects, it argues that the singularities through which forms take place animate both event and perception
Geospatial Analysis of Drug Poisoning Deaths Involving Heroin in the USA, 2000–2014
Pockets
This comment notes how Lauren Berlant's work attends to the compelling but not necessarily explicit emergence of forms in the course of everyday scenes of living through things. Keywords: AttunementsAffectLaborsWritingForms Notes 1. Andre Dubus III, The Garden of Last Days (New York: Norton, 2008), 38. 2. Lauren Berlant, “The New Ordinary,” (unpublished manuscript, September 2, 2009), Word files, notes, and personal communication. Concepts and wo…
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Scenes of Life/Kentucky Mountains
Public Culture - Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2002
Using socially-sensed data to infer ZIP level characteristics for the spatiotemporal analysis of drug-related health problems in Maryland
Nostalgia-A Polemic
Geochemical Evidence of Saharan Dust Parent Material for Soils Developed on Quaternary Limestones of Caribbean and Western Atlantic Islands
Most previous workers have regarded the insoluble residues of high-purity Quaternary limestones (coral reefs and oolites) as the most important parent material for well-developed, clay-rich soils on Caribbean and western Atlantic islands, but this genetic mechanism requires unreasonable amounts of limestone solution in Quaternary time. Other possible parent materials from external sources are volcanic ash from the Lesser Antilles island arc and S…
Nostalgia—A Polemic
A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America
A Space on the Side of the Road vividly evokes an "other" America that survives precariously among the ruins of the West Virginia coal camps and "hollers." To Kathleen Stewart, this particular "other" exists as an excluded subtext to the American narrative of capitalism, modernization, materialism, and democracy. In towns like Amigo, Red Jacket, Helen, Odd, Viper, Decoy, and Twilight, men and women "just settin'" track a dense social imaginary th…
Why Writing Matters
Norman Denzin Interpretive Ethnography: Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century. Thousand Oaks, CA and London: Sage Publications, 1997. xxii. 289 pp
Bad Endings: American Apocalypsis
Apocalypticism and millennialism are the dark and light sides of a historical sensibility transfixed by the possibility of imminent catastrophe, cosmic redemption, spiritual transformation, and a new world order. This essay briefly surveys work by anthropologists and like-minded scholars that focuses directly on endtime movements. It then reviews at more length a varied literature focusing on American apocalypticisms and millennialisms. Turning t…
Scenes of Life/Kentucky Mountains
Public Culture - Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2002
Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America
Still Life
A still is a state of calm, a lull in the action. But it is also the machine hidden in the woods that distills spirits into potency through heat, vapor and condensation. In painting, a still life is a genre that captures the liveliness of inanimate objects (fruit, flowers, bowls) by suspending their sensory beauty in an intimate scene charged with the textures of paint, experience, and desire. Hitchcock was a master of the still in film productio…
Ordinary Affects
Weak Theory in an Unfinished World
This article suggests the value of a kind of cultural theory that attends to the cultural poesis of forms of living. Its objects are textures and rhythms, trajectories, and modes of attunement, attachment, and composition. The point is not to judge the value of these objects or to somehow get their representation "right" but to wonder where they might go and what potential modes of knowing, relating, and attending to things are already present in…
Afterword: Worlding Refrains
Author meets critics: A set of reviews and a response
Kathleen Stewart Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007, 144 pp., $18.95/£11.99 paperback, (ISBN 978-0822341079) $64.95/£47.00 hardback (ISBN 978-0822340881). Words fail. And so we need to experim
Atmospheric Attunements
This paper proposes an analytic attention to the charged atmospheres of everyday life. It asks how circulating forces are generated as atmospheres per se, how they spawn worlds, animate forms of attachment and detachment, and become the live background of living in and living through things. Writing through several small cases selected out of countless potentially describable moments and scenes in which the sense of something happening becomes ta…
Pockets
This comment notes how Lauren Berlant's work attends to the compelling but not necessarily explicit emergence of forms in the course of everyday scenes of living through things. Keywords: AttunementsAffectLaborsWritingForms Notes 1. Andre Dubus III, The Garden of Last Days (New York: Norton, 2008), 38. 2. Lauren Berlant, “The New Ordinary,” (unpublished manuscript, September 2, 2009), Word files, notes, and personal communication. Concepts and wo…
Precarity's Forms
Writing matters if objects of analysis are to be understood as emergent forms with qualities, intensities, and trajectories that can be described or evoked. Writing is not epiphenomenal to thought but its medium. As it sidles up to worlds, disparate and incommensurate things throw themselves together. As it attunes, spatial and temporal dimensions come into play; writing skids over surfaces, pauses on a detail, grows capacious or pinched. Here, I…
Regionality
Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathleen StewartDr. Stewart is a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712; [[email protected]
The Legibilities of Mood Work
Mood is a contact zone for the strange and prolific coexistence of sense and world. An orientation alert to something already set in motion, it is a mundane register of labours to sense out what is actual and potential in an historical moment or a situation. (1) Mood work marshals bodies, objects, technologies, sensations and flights of fancy into forms of partial coherence. Its legibilities are inchoate and yet pronounced in practices, socialiti…
Road registers
This article is an outline of a method to approach an object of analysis as generative, compositional, and immanent to ordinary ways of living and proliferating worlds. Using the case of the American road as an emergent assemblage, I trace its singular forms and the ways in which these forms register forces of all kinds. Road registers are material-symbolic composites charged with potentiality. They form links between disparate phenomena, scales,…
Affect and Emotion, Anthropology of
Companion Pieces Written Through a Drift
Within the framework of the book, Chapter 12 presents an experiment with ethnographic writing and nonrepresentational theory. The authors take the reader on a journey where affective relations to places and objects are central, and singular objects or scenes are evoked. They creatively recompose brief moments of worlding and test the limits set by academic tradition and scholarly expectation.
Worlding Writing
This is a performative condensation of the pieces in this special issue, underscoring certain lines of significance and some of the outlines of emergent theoretical and descriptive trajectories in them. It is written in the mode of a backup singer
The Point of Precision
This essay proposes a kind of critique aimed at approaching the improvisatory conceptuality of ordinary forms emergent in everyday life. Using a slowed ethnographic attention to the immanent aesthetics of objects, it argues that the singularities through which forms take place animate both event and perception
Data Model, Event‐Oriented
The development of theories that address spatiotemporal aspects of data modeling has attracted an increasing number of researchers from different disciplines. Advancing theories and data models for events is of importance to researchers in the field of geographic information science. Many of the dynamics that users are interested in representing in geographic information systems can be understood as events. This interest in events stems from the …
Mental health and breast cancer screening utilization among older Hispanic women
Considerable racial and ethnic differences exist in the way the burden of cancer is experienced in the United States for older Hispanic women. This study utilized data from the 2008 wave of the Health and Retirement Study to investigate the mental health factors associated with older Hispanic women's participation in breast cancer screening services. Logistic regression models were used. Findings indicated that anxiety and positive affect were as…
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