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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.
Twilight Zone Anthropology provides an engaging and multifaceted
picture of anthropology in Poland, Bronisław Malinowski’s
motherland, with a comprehensive introduction describing the
discipline’s history thus far, and thematic contributions
detailing diverse and innovative contemporary practices that
foreshadow rich possibilities for its future. It makes the
compelling argument that Polish anthropology should be seen to have
developed within a twilight zone of contact between `imperial’
discourses of a French-Anglo-US disciplinary hegemony and an
Eastern European intellectual and political heritage.Initially
deriving from a conference hosted by the Royal Anthropological
Institute, Twilight Zone Anthropology provides a palpably vibrant
sampling of a `cosmopolitan Polish national anthropology’, with
discussions of a wide-range of disciplinary issues, such as gender,
memory, engagement, activism, health and politics. Offering many
insights as to how anthropology may be practised so as to evolve
original conceptions and contributions to world anthropologies from
a decentred context, in response to global trends, this work
represents a significant step forward in the ongoing redefinition
of global hierarchies of knowledge and the creation of a
pluriversal anthropology.
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