About the book
Deindustrializing Montreal
The talk considers the entanglements of race, residence, and class in two hard-hit Montreal neighbourhoods. Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighborhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood and the historic home-place of the city's English-speaking Black community, face each other across the Lachine Canal. Each neighbourhood is a product of a long and varied history. Neighbourhoods like these ones were torn apart and left to rot by suburbanization, urban renewal and deindustrialization until they were revalorized by gentrification. The historic divergence in the historical experience speaks to the importance of race. We need to think critically about locality and how places acquire identities, rather than treat them as empty territorial containers or as a static backdrop. The wider project challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles, and racial inequality.
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Author
Steven High is a Professor of History and co-founder of Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He is currently principal director of a transnational SSHRC-funded partnership project on "Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time" (deindustrialization.org which brings together leading research centres, unions and industrial museums across Western Europe and North America.
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Agenda
4:00-4:05pm - Introductions
4:05 - 4:45pm - Presentation
4:45-5:00pm - Discussion Q&A
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About The School of Cities
School of Cities leverages urban data and lived experience to improve policy and decision-making, and collaborates with communities to make cities and urban regions more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive and just.
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NOTES
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