• 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 […]

    Free
  • Roundtable: The Political Economy of Deindustrialization

    Zoom

    The Political Economy of Deindustrialization Join us for a roundtable on The Political Economy of Deindustrialization, which will showcase the political economy section of the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook on […]

    Free
  • Roundtable: De-Industrial Heritage

    Zoom

    What does deindustrialization studies have to offer heritage studies—and what can scholars of deindustrialization learn from the world of heritage? Six DePOT student, postdoctoral, and research affiliates share their research […]

  • Roundtable: Deindustrializing Workers and Places

    Zoom

    Deindustrializing Workers and Places Friday March 29th at 9:30am (EST) Join us as six DePOT-affiliated researchers share their work on the deindustrializing places and people they study across six different […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • ROUNTABLE: SETTLER COLONIALISM AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION

    Zoom

    In Canada, the United States, Australia, and other settler colonies, the dispossession of Indigenous land is integral to histories of industrialization. Resource industries like forestry, mining and oil are inextricably […]

    Free
  • ROUNDTABLE: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION, RACE, AND CASTE

    Zoom

    Following the 2016 US presidential election, much ink has been spilled on the topic of the “white working class.” Conjured as the face of the US Rust Belt, whiteness has […]

    Free
  • ROUNDTABLE: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND POPULISM

    Zoom

      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) […]

    Free
  • ROUNDTABLE: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE LEFT

    Zoom

    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 […]

    Free
  • ROUNDTABLE: IN CONVERSATION WITH TIM STRANGLEMAN

    Zoom

    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 […]

    Free
  • ROUNDTABLE: NEW RESEARCH IN DEINDUSTRIALIZATION STUDIES

    Zoom

    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 […]

    Free