Rountable: Political Abandonment, Silencing and Absence in Deindustrialization
2026-03-12 09:30 - 11:00 UTC | Zoom
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.”

(Un)Just Transitions? Deindustrialization and the Environment Transitions (In)Justes? La Désindustrialisation et l’Environment
2026-06-18 - 2026-06-21 | Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd W, Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8, 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 Politics of Our Time (DePOT) annual conference, whose theme is “Deindustrialization and the Environment.”
Transitions are central in both environmental and deindustrialization studies. In environmental history, these transitions include the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and changes in energy sources from wood to fossil fuels, to renewables. These have been explored in the context of the legal system, labour, culture, economy and politics. Deindustrialization studies also centre on questions of transition. Studies might, for example, assess the impacts and transformations at work in the relationship between humans and nature in the decline, removal, or shift of industrial activity. The conference looks to explore these and other aspects of the intersection between deindustrialization and the environment.
Conference News
The program is now available in English and French : Conférence 2026 programme
The call for papers is now available on our website! Read and download it in French or English here.
