Deindustrialization

La désindustrialisation en France
2022-01-28 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
La désindustrialisation en France
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January 28, 2022 – 9am EST (3pm CET)

The study of deindustrialization in France is flourishing with new books, special issues, and dissertations coming out regularly. The DePOT panel will consider this new scholarship and situate it within the transnational field. The panel will be in French but many of the presentations will be subtitled in English – thus bridging the language divide. It therefore represents a good opportunity for all of us to engage with the French scholarship.

With presentations from:
Marion Fontaine
Pascal Raggi
Jackie Clarke
Renaud Becot
Pierre Toussenot
Théo Georget
Serena Boncompagni
Xavier Vigna, discussant
Chaired by Fred Burrill

Photo: Site of the closed Moulinex factory in Cormelles-le-Royal, showing the words “no to closure” spray-painted on the building during the struggle against the plant’s closure in 2001. Photo by Jackie Clarke, 2010.

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CURATING AND ARCHIVING DEINDUSTRIALIZATION
2021-11-19 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto)
DePOT’s Fall 2021 Roundtable Series: Rethinking Deindustrialization Studies
This roundtable series invites us to revisit our understanding of the field of deindustrialization studies. Two sessions expand the geographic imaginary from the old industrial heartlands of Western Europe and North America. Another asks us to make gender analysis more central. The final session brings curatorial and archival knowledge into the conversation.
Friday November 19th, 10:00-12:00 (Eastern Standard Time)
This roundtable will showcase practice-based knowledge of museum curators and working-class history archivists who are in DePOT partner organizations.
Register here. This event will be held through Zoom. The event will be taking place in English, with presentations in French translated to English via closed captions. If you have any additional access needs please contact the organizer.

Chairperson: Hilary Orange, University of Swansea

Timo Hauge (Regionalverband Ruhr)
Katarzyna Nogueira (Ruhr University)
Rebecca Dolgoy & Erin Secord (Ingenium Canada)
Marcelle Wilson (Steel Museum)
Stefano Agnoletto & Roberta Garruccio (Fondazione ISEC)

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Cover Image: Portal of the machine hall at the former Zollern Colliery. Photo Courtesy of LWL-Industriemuseum.

TOWARDS A GLOBAL DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES
2021-10-15 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
DePOT’s Fall 2021 Roundtable Series: Rethinking Deindustrialization Studies
This roundtable series invites us to revisit our understanding of the field of deindustrialization studies. Two sessions expand the geographic imaginary from the old industrial heartlands of Western Europe and North America. Another asks us to make gender analysis more central. The final session brings curatorial and archival knowledge into the conversation.

Friday October 15 10:00am-12:00pm (EST)
Co-organized with the Global Development Institute and Manchester Urban Institute initiative.
Register here. This event will take place through Zoom. The event will be taking place in English, with presentations in French translated to English via closed captions. If you have any additional access needs please contact the organizer.

Additionally, here is the video presentation of Max Rousseau and Tarik Harroud. An English and French transcription of their presentation can be viewed here.

Chairperson: Stefan Berger, Ruhr University – Bochum

Seth Schindler, University of Manchester, will speak about Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Max Rousseau
Tarik Harroud
Neha Sami and Shriya Anand, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, will speak about Bangalore, India.
Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University, will speak about Harbin, China.
Magdalena Novoa Echaurren, University of Illinois, will speak about Chile.
Owen Crankshaw, University of Bristol, will speak about Johannesburg, South Africa.
Anna Calori, University of Jena, will speak about the former Yugoslavia.
Azat Gündoğan from Florida State University will speak about Istanbul, Turkey.

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Cover Image: Demonstration by Réhon steelworkers, France 1984. Photo: Philippe Piacentini.

GENDERING DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES
2021-10-01 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
DePOT’s Fall 2021 Roundtable Series: Rethinking Deindustrialization Studies (Part 2)
This roundtable series invites us to revisit our understanding of the field of deindustrialization studies. Two sessions expand the geographic imaginary from the old industrial heartlands of Western Europe and North America. Another asks us to make gender analysis more central. The final session brings curatorial and archival knowledge into the conversation.
Friday October 1st 10:00-12:00 (Eastern Standard Time)
Register here. This event will be held through Zoom. The event will be taking place in English, with presentations in French translated to English via closed captions. If you have any additional access needs please contact the organizer.

RECORDING:

Co-Chairs: Arthur McIvor, University of Strathclyde; Jackie Clarke, University of Glasgow.

Naomi Petropoulos, Queen’s University Belfast.
Rory Stride, University of Strathclyde.
Lauren Laframboise, Concordia University.
Rebekah Chatellier, University of Strathclyde.
Marion Henry, Sciences Po Paris and University of Strathclyde
Amber Ward, University of St. Andrew’s
Andy Clark, Newcastle University.

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Cover Image: Workers in the textile mill of Industrias Unidas S.A., Ilopango, 1956. Photo courtesy of World Bank Group/Paul Sanche.

DEINDUSTRIALIZING AUSTRALIA
2021-09-16 06:00 - 08:00 (America/Toronto)
DePOT’s Fall 2021 Roundtable Series: Rethinking Deindustrialization Studies
This roundtable series invites us to revisit our understanding of the field of deindustrialization studies. Two sessions expand the geographic imaginary from the old industrial heartlands of Western Europe and North America. Another asks us to make gender analysis more central. The final session brings curatorial and archival knowledge into the conversation.
Thursday September 16th 6:00-8:00 am (Eastern Standard Time – apologies to North Americans) or: 8pm (Sydney, Australia), 11am (UK), 12 noon (Germany, France, Italy).
This event is co-organized with two Australian Research Council funded projects on “History, Heritage and Environmental Change in a Deindustrialised Landscape” (based at Macquarie University) and “Continuity and Change in the Australian Industrial Landscape” (based at the University of Wollongong).
Register here. This event will be held on Zoom. The event will be taking place in English, with presentations in French translated to English via closed captions. If you have any additional access needs please contact the organizer.

The recording for this event can also be viewed here.
Chairperson: Steven High, Concordia University.

Tanya Evans, Macquarie University.
Lucy Taksa, Macquarie University.
Chris Gibson, University of Wollongong
Chantel Carr, University of Wollongong
Seamus O’Hanlon, Monash University.
Jesse Adams Stein, University of Technology Sydney.
Eric Eklund, Federation University.

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Cover Image: View of the petrochemical plants from the port area, Porto Marghera, 2016. Photo by Gilda Zazzara.

New Perspectives on Deindustrialization (Part 2)
2021-06-18 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
The Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project has organized a two-part Round-Table 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. The panelists include leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences in North America and Europe as well as museum and policy professionals. After everyone has presented, there will then be a Question & Answer period.

Chairperson: Steven High

Giacomo Bottà – Deindustrialisation and Popular Music: Punk and ‘Post-Punk’ in Manchester, Düsseldorf, Torino and Tampere
Chiara Bonfiglioli – Women and Industry in the Balkans: The Rise and Fall of the Yugoslav Textile Sector
Pascal Raggi – La désindustrialisation de la Lorraine du fer.
Lachlan MacKinnon – Closing Sysco: Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada’s Steel City.
Tim Strangleman – Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery.
Alissa Mazar – Deindustrialization and Casinos: A Winning Hand?
Ben Rogaly – Stories from a migrant city: Living and working together in the shadow of Brexit.
Gábor Scheiring – The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary.

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This event will be taking place in English, with presentations in French translated to English via closed captions. If you have any additional access needs please contact the organizer.
Cover Image: Women working in a garment factory in Shtip, in the south of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Photo courtesy of UN Women Europe and Central Asia/Rena Effendi.

New Perspectives on Deindustrialization (Part 1)
2021-05-14 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Halifax)
The Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project has organized a two-part Round-Table 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. The panelists include leading scholars across the humanities and social sciences in North America and Europe as well as museum and policy professionals. After everyone has presented, there will then be a Question & Answer period.

Chairperson: Jackie Clarke

Marion Fontaine and Xavier Vigna – special issue on “La désindustrialisation, une histoire en cours”, 20/21: Bulletin d’histoire
Stefan Moitra and Katarzyna Nogueira – special issue on “(Post-)Industrial Memories. Oral History and Structural Change,” Bios: Zeitschrift für Biographieforschung, Oral History und Lebensverlaufsanalysen
Ewan Gibbs – Coal Country. The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland
Mike Waite – On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town
Cédric Lomba – La restructuration permanente de la condition ouvrière. De Cockerill à ArcelorMittal.
Tracy Neumann – Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America
Jason Hackworth – Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt
Gabriel Winant – The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
Stefan Berger – Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation

Registration page (archive)
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This event will be taking place in English, with presentations in French translated to English via closed captions. If you have any additional access needs please contact the organizer.

Cover Image: Coal miners protesting 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 reads “We want a perspective for our future”. Photo courtesy of Betriebsrat Bergwerk West.

History and Memory in Gentrifying St-Henri
2021-04-21 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Halifax)
Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood in the Southwest of Montreal, was once at the heart of industrial capitalism in Canada. Brutal processes of deindustrialization and gentrification have created multiple historical layers of displacement and resistance, the traces of which are imprinted in popular memory.
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 these issues. In collaboration with the À Nous la Malting Collective, a community initiative to convert the neighbourhood’s last abandoned industrial site into social housing, a working-class history museum, and local services, the students have been working on exhibit proposals, interpretative panels, and creative outputs that can help to further this project.
Come and see what they’ve been working on! Register here.

Populism / populisme/ Populismo / Populismus
2021-03-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Chairperson: Stefan Berger (or Steven High)
Other Presenters: James Rhodes, Gilda Zazzara, Marion Fontaine, Stefan Moitra, Sean O’Connell, Greg Wilson.
Populism is probably the most important keyword that our research project will be chewing on over the next seven years. The panel will consider its emergence in different national contexts, its relationship to deindustrialization, what it offers us conceptually and politically, and what it does not.

Note that the recording does not include the discussion and question period at the end.

Moral Economy / économie morale / Sozialverträglichkeit
2021-02-12 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Chairperson: Keith Gildart
Other Presenters: Tim Strangleman, Stefan Moitra, Lachlan MacKinnon, Marion Fontaine, Andy Perchard, Pascal Raggi.
Developed originally by labour historian E.P. Thompson in relation to the ways that popular feeling placed informal moral (or political) limits on the price of bread in the 17th and 18th centuries, the concept has been increasingly deployed by deindustrialization scholars in the UK. This workshop will critically examine its evolving place and consider the ways it has emerged, or not emerged, in other countries, as well as the efficacy of other related concepts such as Sozialverträglichkeit.

Note that the recording does not include the discussion and question period at the end.

Greening / Industrienatur / Ecologizzazione / verdissage
2021-01-15 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Chairperson: Petra Dolata
Other Presenters: Alice Mah, Jana Golombek, Greg Wilson, Steven High, Lucie Morisset, Lauren Laframboise.
This workshop considers the ways that deindustrialization gets entangled with the language of environmentalism in different contexts, including how deindustrialized areas get “regenerated,” former industrial buildings “recycled,” and new-build manufacturing gets located on “greenfield sites.” The German concept of Industrienatur will also be introduced as will the Anthropocene.

Note that the recording does not include the discussion and question period at the end.

Brownfield / friche industrielle/ Industriebrache / Area dismessa
2020-12-11 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Chairperson: Lachlan MacKinnon
Other Presenters: Jana Golombek, James Rhodes, Steven High, Keith Gildart , Sean O’Connell, Andrew Perchard.
By examining the meaning and significance of “brownfield” in different national contexts we will consider the territorial stigmatization of industrial lands but also the ways that residential areas get stigmatized by industry and its loss. Popular culture will also be considered.

Note that the recording does not include the discussion and question period at the end.

Ruination / Verfall / Rovine / ruine et perte
2020-11-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Chairperson: Alice Mah
Other Presenters: Arthur McIvor, Roberta Garruccio, Fred Burrill, Rebecca Dolgoy, and Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch
Fundamentally, deindustrialization is a process of physical and social ruination as well as part of a wider political project that leaves working-class communities impoverished and demoralized. This workshop will examine the concept of ruination in different national contexts, what it offers deindustrialization studies, and other intersecting concepts that are used in its place.

Note that the recording does not include the discussion and question period at the end.

Deindustrialization / Deindustrializzazione / Désindustrialisation / Deindustrialisation / Deindustrialisierung
2020-10-16 10:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)
Chairperson: Gilda Zazzara
Other Presenters: Tim Strangleman, Xavier Vigna, Stefan Berger, Jackie Clarke, Dimitry Anastakis, Steven High.
This workshop considers the emergence of deindustrialization as a core concept in academic scholarship and more widely in different national contexts, its evolving politics, and other adjacent or intersecting concepts such as the German idea of Strukturwandel.

Note that the recording does not include the discussion and question period at the end.
