Join us for the March Roundtable to discuss Political Abandonment Silencing and Absence in deindustrialization Chairperson: Clarence Hatton-Proulx Presenters: Nina Vodopivek, “Why is it still important to talk about deindustrialization? Silencing industrial workers and deindustrialization: postsocialist experiences.” Sona Baldrian, “Among the Ruins of Past Utopias: Women, Work, and Political Abandonment in Postsocialist Armenia.” Philippine D’Halleine, “La conséquence […]
Join us for a March workshop with the Environment initiative to discuss Gentrification and Greening Chairperson: Greg Wilson Presenters: Alexandrina Vanke: The visual aesthetics of green gentrification in deindustrialising landscapes: a cross-national qualitative comparison Eliot Perrin: Environmental Reclamation and the Reimagining of Sudbury, Ontario's Identity Ellinor Eriksson: The nomadic town: Temporalities and trauma in Sweden's postwar hydropower projects […]
Join DePOT for this new roundtable as we talk about the aftermath of industry! Chairperson: Myriam Guillemette Presenters Riccardo Rosa, “Bagnoli after steel. Deindustrialization and participation in a former industrial area of southern Italy.” Tim Liebregt, “Bust Amid Boom: Automotive Plant Closures in Windsor, Ontario, 1945-1965.” Théo Georget, “Restructuration industrielle en France, économie morale et mobilisations sociales”. […]
Join us for our first Deindustrialization and the Environment working group discussion of the year! Chairperson: Gregory Wilson Presenters: Lachlan Mackinnon: Blue Economy and Ocean Industries in Atlantic Canada Ute Eickelkamp: "From the ground up? Grappling with ethnographic stories about nature lovers, climate change deniers and working-class environmentalists in the post-carbon Ruhr" Adna Camdzic and Alessandro Ponsi: […]
Join DePOT and Energy In Society as we talk extractivism, energy transitions, and degrowth! DePOT’s Deindustrialization and the Environment working group is pleased to host its second roundtable, Deindustrialization and Environment: Research from Energy In Society. This session brings together scholars from the Energy In Society working group at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, […]
DePOT's Deindustrialization and the Environment working group is pleased to host its first roundtable, Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment. This session brings together eight scholars whose research examines the intersections of industrial decline, environmental activism and remediation, and policy responses by a variety of levels of government. Presentations will consider how states, companies, […]
Oral history has been the primary methodology of the field of deindustrialization studies for the past quarter century. The field is therefore anchored in working-class lives and the lived interior of deindustrialization. In a draft paper, DePOT member Stefan Berger provocatively asks if the field has become too one-sided as a result? He argues that […]
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 […]
Journey from Poland to the American Midwest in our next roundtable, featuring research from seven DePOT affiliates and chaired by Steven High! Thursday April 24th (9:30AM Eastern Time). Register on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! Chairperson: Steven High (Concordia University) Yuan Yi (Concordia University) , “Deindustrialization: A […]
Join his former students and colleagues to celebrate the career of Tim Strangleman, DePOT co-founder and author of many books on the sociology of deindustrialization. Wednesday February 12 (9:30AM Eastern Time). Register on Eventbrite to get the Zoom link and receive reminder emails ahead of the roundtable! Sherry Lee Linkon, Georgetown University Jefferson Cowie, Vanderbilt University […]
View the event recording here What happens to workers’ parties when work dries up? Deindustrialization has presented a profound challenge to parties of the left and centre-left, with their traditional base in the trade union movement becoming increasingly precarious. In this roundtable, DePOT affiliates will explore how deindustrialization affected the political left, how parties and […]
Brexit and the 2016 US presidential election threw “populism” into the spotlight. Populism, from both the left (Jean-Luc Melenchon, Bernie Sanders) and the right (Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump) has come to define the politics of deindustrializing societies. How do we make sense of this groundswell? Join DePOT as we explore populism and deindustrialization. […]
