The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies

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Tim Strangleman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK, where he is also director of the Work, Employment and Economic Life research cluster. He has researched and published widely on issues of work, class, community and deindustrialisation. He has carried out work in the coal mining, rail, health, ship building, engineering, paper making and brewing industries, drawing on oral history, archives and visual material. He is author of Work Identity at the End of the Line? Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Railway Industry (2004) and Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery (2019). He is also co-author of Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods (2008) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Working-Class Studies (2021). He is also co-investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project.

Sherry Lee Linkon is a Professor of English and American Studies at Georgetown University, USA, where, with campus and community colleagues, she developed the Steel Valley Voices digital archive of interviews and artifacts reflecting the experiences of 24 racial and ethnic groups in the Youngstown area. Her most recent book, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization (2018), examines early twenty first-century working-class narratives reflecting the continuing effects of economic restructuring in the U.S. With John Russo, she also co-authored Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown (2002) and co-edited New Working Class Studies (2005). Her current research examines literature and photography reflecting Black women's perspectives on the legacies of deindustrialization. She is also a co-investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project.

Steven High is Professor of History at Concordia University, Canada and principal investigator of the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project. He has published extensively on the history and politics of deindustrialization in the United States and Canada. His book, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt (2003), won prizes from the American Historical Association and other organizations. He is also author of Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (with photographer David Lewis, 2007) and One Job Town: Work, Memory and Betrayal in Northern Ontario (2018), and co-editor of The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places (2017).

Jackie Clarke is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK, where she is also a member of the Centre for Gender History. She is also a co-Investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project. Her research explores questions about work, consumption, deindustrialization and gender in contemporary France. She is co-editor of a special issue on gender and deindustrialization in International Labor and Working Class Studies (2024).

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. He is also executive chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice (2022) and editor of Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation (2020). He is a co-investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project, an international partnership project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

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The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in response to the widespread decline of manufacturing and heavy industry from the 1980s onwards.

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The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in response to the widespread decline of manufacturing and heavy industry from the 1980s onwards.

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Introduction

Part I: Concepts and Theories

Introduction: Concepts and Theories

1. Theorizing Deindustrialization

2. Reflections on the Half-Life

3. Deindustrialization as Global History

4. Moral Economy and Industrial Culture

5. Racializing Deindustrialization Studies

Part II: Political Economy of Deindustrialization

Introduction: Political Economy of Deindustrialization

6. Uneven Development, the World System, and Lumpenization: Bringing Marxian Political Economy Back into Deindustrialization Studies

7. The Racial Dimensions of (De)industrialization

8. The Region as an Analytical Framework for Deindustrialization Studies: Regional Economic Development in Atlantic Canada

9. Deindustrialization and Nationhood

10. Challenging and Politicizing Deindustrialization?

11. Anticipating Just Transitions: Ecological Crisis and Future Deindustrialization

Part III: Communities, Identities, Affects

Introduction: Communities, Identities, Affects

12. Community, Affect and Deindustrialization

13. Deindustrialization and Racialized Communities: A Historical Perspective

14. Class, Gender, and Industrial Structures of Feeling after Socialism: Post-industrial Lives in the Post-Yugoslav Space

15. Metallic Vitalities: Smog, Steel and Stigma in a De-industrial Town

16. Deindustrialization, Leisure & Feeling Communities

17. Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill? Notes Towards a Queer Study of Deindustrialization

Part IV: The Critical Cultural Work of Representations

Introduction: The Critical Cultural Work of Representations

18. Black Spatial Agency and Cultural Justice: Race, Ruins, and Gentrification in Detroit

19. Uncovering the Discovery of the Ruhr: Representations of Deindustrialization in Germany's Former Industrial Heartland

20. Making the Human Wreckage Visible: Deindustrialization in Kate Beaton's Ducks

21. The Sound of Deindustrialization

22. Garment Workers Through the Lens of Loss: The Long Shadow of Deindustrialization in South Asian Films

Part V: Memories, Memorialization, and the Heritage of Deindustrialization

Introduction: Memories, Memorialization, and the Heritage of Deindustrialization

23. Industrial Memory Landscapes in Urban Planning Processes Comparative Perspectives from Germany, Luxembourg, and France

24. Memorialization of Industrial Pasts in Post-Socialist Countries

25. The Memorialization of Class in Industrial Heritage Initiatives

26. Uncovering Gender Tracks: Erasure and Railway Industrial Heritage Initiatives Across the World

27. Industrial Heritage from the South: Decolonial Approaches to the Social Construction of Heritage and Preservation Practices

Conclusion