Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies

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 deindustrialization. He has carried out work in the coal mining, rail, health, ship building, engineering, papermaking, and brewing industries, drawing on oral history, archives, and visual material. He is the 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 the co-author of Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods (2008) and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Working-Class Studies (2021). He is also a 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 US. 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 US 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 the 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 the 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 the 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).

• IntroductionPart I: Concepts and TheoriesIntroduction: Concepts and Theories1. Theorizing Deindustrialization2. Reflections on the Half-Life3. Deindustrialization as Global History4. Moral Economy and Industrial Culture5. Racializing Deindustrialization StudiesPart II: Political Economy of DeindustrializationIntroduction: Political Economy of Deindustrialization6. Uneven Development, the World System, and Lumpenization: Bringing Marxian Political Economy Back into Deindustrialization Studies7. The Racial Dimensions of (De)industrialization8. The Region as an Analytical Framework for Deindustrialization Studies: Regional Economic Development in Atlantic Canada9. Deindustrialization and Nationhood10. Challenging and Politicizing Deindustrialization?11. Anticipating Just Transitions: Ecological Crisis and Future DeindustrializationPart III: Communities, Identities, AffectsIntroduction: Communities, Identities, Affects12. Community, Affect and Deindustrialization13. Deindustrialization and Racialized Communities: A Historical Perspective14. Class, Gender, and Industrial Structures of Feeling after Socialism: Post-industrial Lives in the Post-Yugoslav Space15. Metallic Vitalities: Smog, Steel and Stigma in a De-industrial Town16. Deindustrialization, Leisure & Feeling Communities17. “Dad, why did you bring me to a gay steel mill?” Notes Towards a Queer Study of DeindustrializationPart IV: The Critical Cultural Work of RepresentationsIntroduction: The Critical Cultural Work of Representations18. Black Spatial Agency and Cultural Justice: Race, Ruins, and Gentrification in Detroit19. Uncovering the Discovery of the Ruhr: Representations of Deindustrialization in Germany’s Former Industrial Heartland20. Making the Human Wreckage Visible: Deindustrialization in Kate Beaton’s Ducks21. The Sound of Deindustrialization22. Garment Workers Through the Lens of Loss: The Long Shadow of Deindustrialization in South Asian FilmsPart V: Memories, Memorialization, and the Heritage of DeindustrializationIntroduction: Memories, Memorialization, and the Heritage of Deindustrialization23. Industrial Memory Landscapes in Urban Planning Processes – Comparative Perspectives from Germany, Luxembourg, and France24. Memorialization of Industrial Pasts in Post-Socialist Countries25. The Memorialization of Class in Industrial Heritage Initiatives26. Uncovering Gender Tracks: Erasure and Railway Industrial Heritage Initiatives Across the World27. Industrial Heritage from the South: Decolonial Approaches to the Social Construction of Heritage and Preservation PracticesConclusion