Portal of the machine hall at the former Zollern Collier. Photo: LWL-Industriemuseum. RETHINKING DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES
Announcing DePOT’s Fall 2021 Public Program: the “Rethinking Deindustrialization Studies” roundtable series invites us to revisit our understanding of the field with four roundtable events in the fall.
Falck Steeworks Plants, Sesto San Giovanni (Milan, Italy), aerial view circa 1960s. Photo: Fondazione ISEC Photographic Archive. June Newletter Out Now
The DePOT June newsletter covers upcoming events, new project affiliates, and the most recent deindustrialization publications.
May Newsletter out now
This month’s newsletter covers the official launch of our website, student-directed initiative funding recipients, recent deindustrialization publications and events to come.
History and memory in gentrifying St-Henri Student Showcase
Over the course of the last few months, undergraduate History students at Concordia enrolled in the “History and Memory in Gentrifying Saint-Henri” course have been thinking through the brutal processes of deindustrialization and gentrification in the St-Henri neighbourhood in Montreal.
Protesting coal miners at the Friedrich Heinrich/Rheinland colliery in the town of Kamp-Lintfort in March 1997. There was a wave of miners' protests in Winter and Spring 1996/97 as the German Federal Government planned to cut subsidies which would have meant a loss of 60,000 jobs in less than ten years. The banner in front says "We want a perspective for our future". Photo: Betriebsrat Bergwerk West. New Perspectives on Deindustrialization Roundtables
The Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project has organized a two-part Roundtable Series that invites recent authors of books and special issues on deindustrialization to speak to their major findings and what their overall intervention is to the field.
Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia
We’re excited to announce that Dr. Indranil Chakraborty will be joining the DePOT team this September.
