The DePOT blog shares emerging research from within the project and outside of it. We aim to publish a range of perspectives.
Do you want to submit to the DePOT blog?
DePOT Blog Submissions Guideline
We are looking for 750-1,000-word blog post with a clear message or argument, and a suggested title.
Tips:
- Write for a general and specialized audience, as this is our public-facing website. No jargon!
- Use Chicago-style citations
- If possible, send a photo to accompany your post with citation (photos must be under 2500 pixels)
- If you are not a DePOT affiliate, please send a writer biography (200 words max)
Email submissions or questions to deindustrialization@concordia.ca, and the DePOT blog is edited by Dr Steven High.
Topic ideas:
- Responses to current events
- Discussions on upcoming publications
- Reflections on recent research trips
- Notes on recent conferences in related fields, protests and solidarity events, marches, workshops, roundtables…
- Posts commemorating important anniversaries or key historical events
- Blog posts written as coursework in a class related to deindustrialization
- Discussions on representations of deindustrialization in pop culture
- Personal essays about how your work in deindustrialization studies intersects with lived experience
Deindustrialization and the Calumet Region
Joseph Coates and Emiliano Aguilar discuss the work done to preserve the memory of ACME workers in the Calumet region after the company’s coking plant closure.
Social Reproduction and Scandal in Netflix’s Toxic Town
Amber Ward reviews Netflix’s Toxic Town, a depiction of women’s response to the continued exploitation of residents in a deindustrialized English town.
Boss Narratives: Regeneration and Heritage in Marysville, New Brunswick, Canada.
Noah Schwartz discusses the whitewashing that occurs in many cases of historical preservation of gentrifying deindustrialized neighbourhoods, using the example of Marysville, New Brunswick