Conference: Pop History of Deindustrialization: Narratives, Economies, Identities. “The West” in Global Perspective (Cambridge, 14-16 November 24)

Dimoni Industrial/Industrial Devil. (Idranx from Badalona, SPAIN, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons).

Since the 1970s, deindustrialization – or the massive reduction in industrial production, facilities, and jobs – has fundamentally changed Western societies. This history has tended to be narrated in terms of decline and loss, usually within a local or national locus. Recently, scholars have challenged the isolated directionality of these narratives by bringing global and cross-industrial perspectives to the fore. Deindustrialization instigated an uneven set of experiences in different spaces, and forms of rupture and continuity. Those experiences have been reflected in various forms of pop culture. As examples from Germany and Great Britain demonstrate, Western deindustrialization unfolded in the midst of global, and particularly Asian, industrialization, reinforcing each other, as the example of South Korea illustrates.

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Pophistory of Decline: Promotions- oder Post-Doc-Stelle am IfZ (d/m/w, Bewerbungsschluss 31.03.2023)

Das Leibniz-Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin (IfZ) schreibt eine Promotions- oder Post-Doc-Stelle zur Popgeschichte der Deindustrialisierung aus (Bewerbungsschluss 31.03.2023). Das Projekt ist Teil des Forschungsprojektes “Confronting Decline” in Kooperation u.a. mit den Universitäten Luxembourg und Manchester und dem ZPKM Freiburg. Mehr Infomationen hier.