Call for Papers: The Politics of Deindustrialization | Appel aux communications: La politique de la fermeture industrielle
Read the call for papers for our 2023 conference in Sydney, Nova Scotia. | Lisez l’appel à communications pour notre conférence de 2023 à Sydney, en Nouvelle-Écosse.
Slag Banks and Acts of Erasure
Clara Casian reflects on the traces left by the steel industry on Barrows Island’s landscape.
Honouring the Original Derry Girls: the Resurgence of the Commemoration and Celebration of Shirt Making in Derry, Northern Ireland
Naomi Petropoulos writes on the legacy of industrial shirt-making in Derry, Northern Ireland.
EXPANDING BOUNDARIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON DEINDUSTRIALIZATION
Part Two of DePOT’s roundtable series on new publications in the international field of deindustrialization studies recently took place. Among the new perspectives that emerged, Lachlan MacKinnon highlights the unique contributions that this new scholarship has made to the field.
Bridging divides: new perspectives on deindustrialization
By Steven High
DePOT recently organized the first of two roundtables on new publications in the international field of deindustrialization studies. Among the new perspectives that emerged, Steven High highlights three ways that the new scholarship is bridging old historiographic divides.

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Tower Colliery, December 1982. Photo: John Podpadec.
Abandoned workers' council assembly hall in a Porto Marghera chemical factory, 2017. Photo: Gilda Zazzara.
Illustration: Kerri Flanagan.
Steven High's Working Class Public History course in the final stage of developing an audio walk of the deindustrialized Point Saint-Charles district of Montreal. Photo: David Ward.
