Community, affect, and deindustrialization

Walkerdine, Valerie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2982-8114 2025. Community, affect, and deindustrialization. Strangleman, T., Linkon, S. L., High, S., Clarke, J. and Berger, S., eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies, Routledge, pp. 189-201. (10.4324/9781003308324-19)

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Abstract

This chapter explores the affective aspects of deindustrialization. Often overlooked, understanding the long affective legacy of the loss of industry not only as industries close but well into the affective lives of later generations is profoundly important. The chapter begins with reference to research carried out by the author in the south Wales steel industry, exploring the aftermath of the closure of a steel works, which had formed the centerpiece of a Valleys town. It explores what was learned from that research and the generation of concepts such ‘affective practices’ and ‘affective history’ to understand the affective lives of communities in and after industry. The chapter goes on to explore more recent research with later generations in deindustrialized communities, speculating on the complex patterns of working and relating that emerge differently in different locations and industrial histories. The chapter argues that just because the labor market has changed and patterns of work moved on, it does not mean that complex psychosocial and affective relations may be discerned in modes of being, relating and working diverse former industrial communities, thus proposing the signal importance of continued work on affect across generations.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Routledge
ISBN:	9781003308324
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2025 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183290

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