Introduction

Muehlebach, Andrea; Shoshan, Nitzan

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“…Whilst generally "[m]emory and history are important processes of placing and locating people and communities both geographically and socially" (Taylor, 2012, p. 56), spatial and temporal processes have emerged as being critical to understanding the contemporary experiences and subjectivities of the post-industrial working-classes (Degnen, 2016). Talking methods repeatedly document working-class senses of loss, dislocation, and mourning wrought by job loss and workplace closures where "[t]hat which is missing in their lives today looms hauntingly in their memories of former times" (Meier, 2013, p. 469; see also Clark & Gibbs, 2017;MacKenzie et al, 2006;Muehlebach & Shoshan, 2012;Murray, Baldwin, Ridgway, & Winder, 2005;Nadel-Klein, 2003;Portelli, 2012Portelli, , 2005. Through a comparative case study of three post-industrial cities in Russia, the UK, and the United States, Alice Mah (2012) Existing work is particularly united in arguing that "legacies" of the past continually intervene in the present to shape and unsettle formations of identity, place, inclusion, and expectations of the future in post-industrial space.…”

Section: Deindustrialization: Themes Concerns and Agendasmentioning

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Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

Emery

2018

Geography Compass

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Sections of the post‐industrial working‐class have made a notable return to media and political discourses in the context of the rise of populism across Europe and the United States. These narratives, which exclude women and BAME working‐class people, suggests the (white, male) working‐class are angry and resentful of being left behind by increasingly globalized political economies, nostalgic for the industrial ordering of work, home, and community. It seems that the political and media establishment are, selectively, understanding what has long been realized by researchers of deindustrialization. In the first, this paper surveys and critiques recent discourses on the post‐industrial working‐classes. The paper then traces the development of industrial ruination as an interdisciplinary area of academic focus, highlighting the themes of memory and temporal factors that have come to dominate the literature. The next section reviews contestations surrounding the affordances of landscapes and industrial ruins for the analysis of memory and history. Finally, the paper proposes interrelated ways to advance future study which historical–cultural geographers are well placed to carry forward. Here, I call for greater attention toward the affective and embodied dimensions of classed experience and the intersectionalities of race and gender in working‐class subjectivities. Further, I suggest there is an imperative to a deeper understanding of constitutive “affective” histories to mediate enduring social inequalities and their political and socially divisive mobilizations.

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Section: Deindustrialization: Themes Concerns and Agendasmentioning

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Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

Emery

2018

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“…Having said this, just like Fordism (Muehlebach & Shoshan, 2012), industry often leaves traces in the psychologies, cultures and socialities of those who experienced it, despite its passing. It is in this way that older people persist, and not at all ironically, in referring to Ashington as the biggest coal-mining town in the World.…”

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Youthquake: Neoliberalism and the Ethnicization of Generation

Dawson¹

2018

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Through an ethnographic case-study of a former coalmining town in England this article explores relationships between neoliberal restructuring and changes in inter-generational relations. I argue that neoliberalism has produced significant inter-generational structural schisms that, in turn have formed the basis of significant inter-generational cultural schisms. Furthermore, I argue that in several ways these bear the qualities of ethnic divisions.

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“…This idea was extremely valuable for regulating society as a whole and the working class in particular. The “Fordist dream” (Muehlebach and Shoshan , 318) is perhaps best understood as a kind of aspirational politics, but it was a politics that was widely shared, fueling demands for equal participation in the affluent society of the mid‐20th century. The political movements of the 1950s and 1960s focused on fully including women and people of color in the labor market, in the electoral process, in housing and consumer markets, and in state welfare programs.…”

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Working for food stamps: Economic citizenship and the post-Fordist welfare state in New York City

Dickinson

2016

American Ethnologist

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In the United States, the number of people receiving state‐subsidized food aid has risen dramatically since 2001. This increase complicates the well‐worn story that the post‐Fordist welfare state has been continuously cut back in the neoliberal era, indicating instead that it is expanding to subsidize poor workers’ participation in the formal labor market. In New York City, welfare office workers operationalize policies that ease access to food assistance for poor workers who can demonstrate that they are formally employed. Meanwhile, workfare programs punish the unemployed and marginal workers by making them work for food stamps. This conservative, paternalistic welfare regime commodifies labor, creates new patterns of stratification among the urban poor, and redraws the terms of economic citizenship. [welfare, poverty, citizenship, food policy, employment, social stratification, New York City]

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Introduction

Cited by 141 publications

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Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

Geographies of deindustrialization and the working‐class: Industrial ruination, legacies, and affect

Youthquake: Neoliberalism and the Ethnicization of Generation

Working for food stamps: Economic citizenship and the post-Fordist welfare state in New York City

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