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  • (Un)Just Transitions? Deindustrialization and the Environment Transitions (In)Justes? La Désindustrialisation et l’Environment

    Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment DePOT Conference Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada June 18-20 2026 What can the study of deindustrialization add to our understanding of environmental history? And conversely, what can the study of environmental history contribute to deindustrialization studies? Answering these questions will be the focus of the 2026 Deindustrialization and the […]

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  • Désindustrialisation, nation, immigration : quelles réponses politiques ? / Deindustrialization, Nation, Immigration: What Political Responses?

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    Deindustrialization, Nation, Immigration: What Political Responses? Deindustrialization, which began affecting North America and Northwestern Europe in the 1950s, unevenly impacted various workforces. These groups, which have experienced mass layoffs and relocations due to globalization and trade liberalization, include both men and women, national and immigrant workers, and racialized individuals, some of whom have been replaced […]

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  • Gender, Family, and Deindustrialization — DePOT annual conference

    Strathclyde University 40 George St (Graham Hills Building), Glasgow

    In deindustrialization studies, representations of industrial closures have often dwelled on the ways that masculinity is threatened or reconfigured through the experience of job loss and on the erosion of collective ties and spaces linked to the world of work. Conversely, women have appeared only on the fringes of the literature on deindustrialization, sometimes in their capacities as […]

  • Depot Summer Institute: Difficult histories of gender and community

    Queen's University Belfast

    DePOT Summer Institutes bring together graduate students and postdoctoral fellows as well as select faculty and partners to workshop their latest research in a small supportive setting. Summer Institutes are timed to occur on the eve of the project’s thematic workshops and assembly in order to encourage participants to attend these as well. It is […]

  • DePOT Annual Conference: The Politics of Industrial Closure

    Cape Breton University 1250 Grand Lake Road, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Le français suit: The DePOT Politics of Industrial Closure conference will focus primarily on the “how” and “why” of mine, mill and factory closings, the wider restructuring of the international division of labour, as well as the societal debates about the nature of economic change. Political economy concerns are therefore central as are studies focusing […]

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