Rountable: Labor and Working Class Environmentalism
2026-02-06 10:00 - 11:30 UTC | Zoom
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: “From Jobs to Justice: Environmental-Work Conflicts and Industrial Closures in Italy (1980–1999)”
Monika Glosowitz: “Fluorosis – A Broken Story of Worker’s Fights”
Melissa R. Meade: ““Standing Tall Before You”: Culm Banks, Memory, Play, and Survival in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Region”

Roundtable: (In)Justice and Heritage After Industry
2026-02-20 09:30 - 11:00
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”.
Seana Irvine, “Spatializing (In)Justice: Politics, Planning and Citizen Participation in King’s Cross Redevelopment.”
Jaime Gallego Bellas, “La culture et le patrimoine dans la redynamisation des régions postindustrielles : analyse comparée entre le Pays Basque et l’agglomération lilloise”
Guilherme Pozzer,
Aparna Das, “Deindustrialisation and Spatial Governance in Kolkata’s Jute Mill Lands: A Bourdieusian Reading.”

DePOT Environmental Workshop: Gentrification and Greening
2026-03-06 10:00 - 11:30
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 and their aftermath
Patrick Cooper-McCann: Planning the Future of Industry in Detroit: Gentrifying vs. Declining Contexts
Fiona Hamilton: Rivers of Industry, Currents of Decline: Environmental Memory in Adaptive Reuse

Rountable: Political Abandonment, Silencing and Absence in Deindustrialization
2026-03-12 09:30 - 11:00
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 masquée de la désindustrialisation: la violence domestique”
Andrea Negro, “Deindustrialized Bodies in Motion: The Return of Italians from the Belgian Mines.”
Steven High, « A Grim Deterrent: Darlington, the US Supreme Court, and the Legalization of Anti-Union Plant Closures.”
Matthew Penney, “Between ‘Flying Geese’ and ‘Hollowing Out’ – Discourses of Deindustrialization in Japan.”
Sahar Ghasemshahi, “Oil, Deindustrialization, and the Absence of Heritage Policy: Abadan as an Industrial Palimpsest.”
