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Affective Attunements and Agency in Late Industrialism
The article explores the context of the expansion of Opole Power Plant, which has fuelled new migration patterns in the region of Dobrzeń Wielki. By drawing on the ethnographic fieldwork among construction workers working at the expansion site and living temporarily in the region, it aims to problematise the relationship between their mobile livelihood, agency and affective attunements. It argues that the emergence of late industrialism, which coincided with the neoliberal reconfi gurations of global political economy, has produced different modes of uncertainties, forced flexibilities and rather bleak futures. Consequently, for many construction workers, whose livelihood chiefl y depends on mobility between different industrial sites in Poland, the contemporary global entanglements create a “charged atmosphere”, which has to be negotiated and acted upon in different ways.