Take a break from grading and term papers to 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 Deindustrialization Studies, edited by Tim Strangleman.

Chairperson: Steven High, Concordia University

Participants: 

  • Fred Burrill (Cape Breton University) and Matthew Penney (Concordia University), “Bringing Marxian Political Economy Back into Deindustrialization Studies.”
  • Jason Hackworth (University of Toronto), “The racial dimensions of (de)industrialization.”
  • Lachlan MacKinnon (Cape Breton University), “The Region as an Analytical Framework for Deindustrialization Studies.”
  • Marion Fontaine (Sciences Po) and Xavier Vigna (Université Paris Nanterre), “Challenging and Politicizing Deindustrialization?”
  • Alice Mah (University of Glasgow), “Anticipating Just Transitions: Ecological Crisis and Future Deindustrialization.”

Get the Zoom link and sign up for by filling in this Google Form.

If you aren’t able to join us, know that the roundtable will be filmed and uploaded to our YouTube channel.