Agency at Work: Ethnographies In/Of Late Industrialism

ISBN-13: 9783631846094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 164 str.

Monika Baer

Opis

Based on the ethnographic method, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism, revealed in interactions between a power plant and a local community in Opole, Silesia, in southwestern Poland. Political, economic, ethnic, gender, and mobility issues are examined through the prism of various scales.

Spis treści

Opole Power Plant as a socio-political catalyst - Local community in the face of intense economic changes - Bottom-up economic strategies - Revival of local identity under political pressure - Affective togetherness - Femininities in the face of large industrial investment - Mobility, affects and agency in late industrialism

O autorze

Monika Baer teaches social and cultural anthropology at the University of Wroclaw. Her main research areas comprise postsocialist transitions and Europeanization processes in Central/Eastern Europe with a special attention given to gender/sexuality, activism, and political engagement of social sciences and humanities.