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

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