Deindustrialisation

Education facts

Code: HIA650

This course examines deindustrialisation as a transnational historical transformation process with ongoing local consequences, where workplace closures, job losses, and relocation affect social cohesion and collective identities. The course addresses not only how families' means of livelihood have changed and how the social world of the factory floor has been disrupted by downsizing or outsourcing, but also how the collective identities of entire industrial communities are undergoing transformation. As industrial towns transition to post-industrial conditions, new promises for the future are accompanied by uncertainty, often characterised by diverse and unclear horizons of expectation. The broader economic and social structures that have shaped and validated working-class living conditions have been, and continue to be, renegotiated over decades. The course includes in-depth study within the field of deindustrialisation studies, as well as an independently selected case study of deindustrialisation.

Entry requirements

90 ECTS credits completed in History, Cultural Studies, History of Ideas, Religion, Sociology, Political Science, Ethnology, or Anthropology, including at least 30 ECTS credits at the G2F level or higher, or equivalent

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Deindustrialisation

  Karlstad University

  Ortsoberoende

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 8 November 2026

  Pace of study: 50 %