De-Industrial Heritage

What does deindustrialization studies have to offer heritage studies-and what can scholars of deindustrialization learn from the world of heritage? Six DePOT student, postdoctoral, and research affiliates share their research on de-industrial heritage.
Chair: Steven High
Presenters:
Brian Rosa, Autonomous University of Barcelona: “The “Disciplining of Memory”? Narrating Traces of the Industrial Past in Barcelona”
Paula Fernández Álvarez, University Complutense of Madrid - “Post-industrial ruins and fossil imaginaries. Worker memory, spaces and visual culture of coal extractivism”
Guilherme Pozzer, University of Sheffield - “Crafting the Past: Empowering Communities through Creative Writing, Visual Narratives, Memory, and Place-Making”
Myriam Guillemette, Université du Québec à Montréal - “Sundown Towns phenomenon in Canadian planned communities; recognition of the industrial contribution of the Indigenous Peoples of Manitoba”
Jorge Magaz-Molina, University of Alcalà - “Climate action, carbon deindustrialization and heritage concerns in Northwestern Spain”
Laura Littlefair, Northumbria University - “From Cradle to Grave: Recontextualising the Deindustrialised Railway Town”