BOOK LAUNCH | Steven High- Deindustrializing Montreal

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Join Steven High for the launch of his new book, Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class.

David Austin, one of Canada’s foremost scholars of the Black Radical Tradition, will also say a few words. 

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Book Launch: Deindustrializing Montreal by Steven High Tickets, Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

Les Sans-Taverne - Coop et Brasserie Artisanale
1900 Rue le Ber
Montréal, QC H3K 2A4

Steven High is professor of history at Concordia University’s Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.

About the book

Deindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles, and racial inequality. Fundamentally, deindustrialization is a process of physical and social ruination as well as part of a wider political project that leaves working-class communities impoverished and demoralized. The structural violence of capitalism occurs gradually and out of sight, but it doesn’t play out the same for everyone. Point Saint-Charles was left to rot until it was revalorized by gentrification, whereas Little Burgundy was torn apart by urban renewal and highway construction. This historical divergence had profound consequences in how urban change has been experienced, understood, and remembered. Drawing extensive interviews, a massive and varied archive of imagery, and original photography by David Lewis into a complex chorus, Steven High brings these communities to life, tracing their history from their earliest years to their decline and their current reality. He extends the analysis of deindustrialization, often focused on single-industry towns, to cities that have seemingly made the post-industrial transition.