Deindustrialization Studies
Deindustrialization Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research.
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@stevenhigh.bsky.social
@brianrosa.bsky.social
Urban studies researcher at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Papá, geógrafo, fotógrafo, santsenc dels EUA. http://brianrosa.net
@rustbeltlab.bsky.social
Our lab works to tell the story of this region through the voices of its people. Learn more about our work at Rustbeltstudies.org
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social
🏭 Transnational partnership project examining the politics, historical roots and lived experiences of deindustrialization. Based at COHDS: https://storytelling.concordia.ca/ Website: https://deindustrialization.org/
@sethschindler.bsky.social
Geographer, co-founder of the Second Cold War Observatory, Senior Lecturer of Urban Development and Transformation at the Global Development Institute https://www.secondcoldwarobservatory.com/
@marksouther.bsky.social
Cleveland-based urban, public, & digital historian | author of New Orleans on Parade, Believing in Cleveland, Sandhill Cities (2025) | Clvd Historical, Green Book Clvd | trumpeter @ Clvd Repertory Orch, Clvd Winds, Euclid Sym Orch | https://marksouther.org
@jasonhackworth.bsky.social
Urban studies professor, Ohio State football fan, neurodivergent http://individual.utoronto.ca/hackworth/index.html
@beltmagazine.bsky.social
An independent digital magazine by and for the Rust Belt. https://beltmag.com/
@lbourgon.bsky.social
FRCGS, author of TREE THIEVES, National Geographic Explorer, Explorers Club fellow. Oral history about land, identity, work. Halifax.
@annedance.bsky.social
@alevan.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, PhD in Sociology | Author of The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia (ManchesterUP, 2024) https://t.ly/2VHg1 | Social theory, ethnography, class, inequality, urban space, deindustrialization, everyday environmentalism
@norakuettel.bsky.social
PostDoc @UniBremen | urban & cultural geography | art, ethnography, feminism, gardening, labor, shipyards, deindustrialization, zines & visual methods (she/her) Hamburg | Bremen https://nora-kuettel.de
@eddanicolson.bsky.social
@zembrzycki.bsky.social
Oral and public historian of immigrant, ethnic, refugee, and racialized experiences.
@vawright10.bsky.social
Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright
@gscheiring.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Comparative Politics Georgetown Qatar • Economic shocks, inequality, authoritarianism, class relations, populism, health • Political economy of development • FirstGen • former Fellow @ Harvard CES & Cambridge Sociology • gaborscheiring.com
@arnkeeling.bsky.social
He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern 🇨🇦. Co-author, Mining Country: https://lorimer.ca/adults/product/mining-country.
@mininghistory.bsky.social
Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa. More on https://duncan.money Contact: [email protected]
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing the Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
@jeffmanuel.bsky.social
Historian of Energy, Technology, and the Environment; Professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Coauthor of the forthcoming book “Ethanol: A Hemispheric History for the Future of Biofuels;” Public and Oral History Practitioner. jeffmanuel.com
@gabrielwinant.bsky.social
Historian, opinions my own. Hand upon the dollar, eye upon the scale. He/him.
@tomsugrue.bsky.social
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
@brianleechphd.bsky.social
Historian of American West, Midwest, environmental history, mining, energy, food, animals. Currently researching the history of U.S. speed limits & mining in popular culture. https://brianleechphd.net
@stevenhigh.bsky.social
Professor of History at Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Current Project: Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time -- deindustrialization.org . New Book: The Left in Power: Bob Rae's NDP and the Working Class (Feb '25)