DEINDUSTRIALIZATION & THE POLITICS OF OUR TIME

2020-2021 KEYWORD WORKSHOP SERIES (ZOOM)

The series is organized by the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time SSHRC Partnership project’s Industrial Closures component, as a first step in thinking transnationally about deindustrialization and its politics. Its goal is to critically examine six keywords in deindustrialization studies and consider their historical emergence and explanatory power across multiple national and thematic contexts. What do these concepts offer us? Why do some concepts emerge in one national context but not another or come to have different meanings? And what are the adjacent or intersecting concepts that emerge in their stead?

2. Ruination / Verfall / Rovine / ruine et perte

Friday November 13th 10h00-12h00 EST

Chairperson: Alice Mah

Other Presenters: Arthur McIvor, Roberta Garruccio, Fred Burrill, Rebecca Dolgoy, and Olaf Schmidt-Rutsch

Fundamentally, deindustrialization is a process of physical and social ruination as well as part of a wider political project that leaves working-class communities impoverished and demoralized. This workshop will examine the concept of ruination in different national contexts, what it offers deindustrialization studies, and other intersecting concepts that are used in its place.

Register for the other workshops in the series here:

1. Deindustrialization / Deindustrializzazione / Désindustrialisation / Deindustrialisation / Deindustrialisierung (October 16, 10h00-12h00 EST)

3. Brownfield / friche industrielle/ Industriebrache / Area dismessa (December 11, 10h00-12h00 EST)

4. Greening / Industrienatur / Ecologizzazione / verdissage (January 15, 10h00-12h00 EST)

5. Moral Economy / économie morale / Sozialverträglichkeit (February 12, 10h00-12h00 EST)

6. Populism / populisme/ Populismo / Populismus (March 12, 10h00-12h00 EST)