Revenant Waste

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Mill Creek and the Toxic Legacies of the Anthropocene

Haeden E. Stewart

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University Press of Florida
12 May 2026

Environmental archaeology; Industrial archaeology; Pollution & threats to the environment

Series: Co-published with the Society for Historical Archaeology

Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canada’s first industrial sites

Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmonton’s Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canada’s earliest industrial zones. This book shows how waste shapes vulnerable communities and environments both materially and psychologically. Haeden Stewart presents the first systematic study of industrial devastation from the standpoint of waste itself, treating it as a socially and ecologically active force that lingers, leaches, and transforms.

This book uses an interdisciplinary approach that blends archaeology, environmental science, archival research, and ethnography with historical vignettes, resulting in a novel framework for understanding the uneven and indeterminate effects of waste. Drawing on years of intensive excavation at the site, Stewart reveals how this landscape is still defined by the remnants of colonial dispossession and industrial activity in the form of toxic heavy metals, meatpacking factory refuse, and invasive shrubs. More than just a study of contamination, Revenant Waste is a meditation on the uncanny nature of waste—how it remains, resurfaces, and reshapes the world.

By: Haeden E. Stewart
Imprint: University Press of Florida
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
ISBN: 9780813081533
ISBN 10: 081308153X
Series: Co-published with the Society for Historical Archaeology
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 12 May 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Section I: Pollution 1. Daylight 2. Gopher Holes 3. Save Tomorrow Section II: Exposure 4. Salvage 5. Shadows 6. Signs That Might Be Omens 7. In the Earth Section III: Wasteland 8. Old Jack 9. Wasteland 10. Appropriated Section IV: Hidden 11. Pig-Sick 12. Smoke 13. Caragana Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Haeden E. Stewart is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.