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DePOT Blog Submissions Guideline
Email submissions to deindustrialization@concordia.ca
750-1,000-word blog post with a clear message or argument, and a suggested title
Write for a general and specialized audience, as this is our public-facing website. No jargon!
Use Chicago-style citations
If possible, send a photo to accompany your post with citation (photos must be under 2500 pixels)
If you are not a DePOT affiliate, please send a writer biography (200 words max)
Topic ideas:
Responses to current events
Discussions on upcoming publications
Reflections on recent research trips
Notes on recent conferences in related fields, protests and solidarity events, marches, workshops, roundtables…
Posts commemorating important anniversaries or key historical events
Blog posts written as coursework in a class related to deindustrialization
Discussions on representations of deindustrialization in pop culture
Personal essays about how your work in deindustrialization studies intersects with lived experience
Slag Banks and Acts of Erasure
Clara Casian reflects on the traces left by the steel industry on Barrows Island’s landscape.
Honouring the Original Derry Girls: the Resurgence of the Commemoration and Celebration of Shirt Making in Derry, Northern Ireland
Naomi Petropoulos writes on the legacy of industrial shirt-making in Derry, Northern Ireland.
EXPANDING BOUNDARIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON DEINDUSTRIALIZATION
Part Two of DePOT’s roundtable series on new publications in the international field of deindustrialization studies recently took place. Among the new perspectives that emerged, Lachlan MacKinnon highlights the unique contributions that this new scholarship has made to the field.