Joseph Heathcott, The New School

Joseph Heathcott, Professor of Urban Studies, The New School

This paper considers the ambiguous condition of property in communities characterized by disinvestment, vacancy, and market collapse. As an ensemble, these contiguities of abandonment form what we call the 'Rust Archipelago,' a chain of neighborhoods from one city to another across the Northeast and Midwest that resemble each other more than they do other neighborhoods within their own cities. Our project explores these similarities in terms of the disturbance ecologies that take hold, and the experiences of residents who are left to pick up the pieces and knit together relationships amid the fragmentary landscapes.

Commentator: Naomi Williams, Rutgers-New Brunswick

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This seminar is a forum for works-in-progress in the history of capitalism, broadly defined. We seek proposals from scholars at all levels. These proposals may consider a variety of subjects, including the history of race and racism, gender and feminist studies, intellectual history, political history, legal history, business history, the history of finance, labor history, cultural history, urban history, and agricultural history.

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