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.

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Agency at Work : Ethnographies In/of Late Industrialism

Monika Baer; Peter Lang GmbH

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Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter

Modernity in question : studies in philosophy and history of ideas, Berlin, 2021

Modernity in Question, Frankfurt a.M., GERMANY, 2021

Peter Lang Group, Frankfurt a.M., 2021

Germany, Germany

Cover
Series Information
Copyright Information
Table of Contents
Preface (Monika Baer)
References
Opole Power Plant as a Sociopolitical Catalyzer (Petr Skalník)
Coal Controversy in the European Union and Poland
The Opole Power Plant
The Dobrzeń Wielki Commune
From “Giełczyn” to Dobrzeń Wielki
Pękala
Sociological Research
The Relationship between the OPP and the Dobrzeń Wielki Commune
Struggle for a Decision
The OPP Enlargement
Unexpected Turn
Conclusion
References
Local Community in the Face of Intense Economic Changes: The Dobrzeń Wielki Commune in Opole Silesia (Konrad Górny)
Introduction
The Dobrzeń Wielki Commune in a Historical Perspective
OPP Expansion in the Eyes of the Local Community
Division of the Dobrzeń Wielki Commune
Conclusions
References
Bottom-Up Economic Strategies in the Light of the Opole Power Plant Expansion (Mirosław Marczyk)
Introduction
Local Forms of Economic Adjustment
Large and Small Businesses
Specificity of the Dobrzeń Wielki Commune
Economic Aspects of the Commune’s Partition
Conclusions
References
Revival of Local Identity Under Political Pressure: German Minority in Southwestern Poland (Marcin Brocki)
Research Site
What Is this Conflict About? An Introduction
The Conflict’s Origin and Stages
Course of the Conflict
References
Affective Togetherness: Emotional Dynamics in/of the Field of the Political (Monika Baer)
Emotions, the Political, and Anticipations
Fieldwork
Doxa
Situated Togetherness
Citizenship
Discourses of Hope
Reconfigurations of Affective Togetherness
Toward Alternative Futures
Conclusions
References
Femininities in the Face of Large Industrial Investments (Ewa Kruk)
Femininity as Discourse
Women in Male-Dominated Workplace
Empirical Research
“One of the Boys”
“Gendered” Body on the Construction Site
Support Networks
Conclusions
References
Mobility, Affects, and Agency in Late Industrialism (Marek Pawlak)
Introduction
Mobility at the Industrial Site
Attuning to Mobile Lives
Affective Agency and the Uncertainties of Late Industrialism
Conclusions
References
Series Index

Rooted in anthropological and ethnological traditions, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism revealed in interactions between a coal power plant and a local community in Opole Silesia, in southwestern Poland. In this context, the authors show by the use of the ethnographic method, how variables and forces of various scales shape political events centered around the power plant; grassroots economic dynamics and entrepreneurship; the local semiosphere uniting the divided social group; affective dimensions of a social protest; (un)doing gender in the industrial workplace; and the mobile livelihoods of migrant industrial workers. By doing so, they concretize in different ways both the concept of late modernity and agency.
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2021

Rooted in anthropological and ethnological traditions, this volume offers analytical insights into workings of agency in late industrialism revealed in interactions between a coal power plant and a local community in Opole, Silesia, in southwestern Poland. In this context, the authors show by the use of the ethnographic method, how variables and forces of various scales shape political events centered around the power plant; grassroot economic dynamics and entrepreneurship; local semiosphere uniting the divided social group; affective dimensions of a social protest; (un)doing gender in the industrial workplace; and mobile livelihoods of migrant industrial workers. All of them, in one way or another, attempt to escape problems raised by analyses focused solely on human acting subjects.

2024-02-16