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.

• 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

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.

• 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

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.

• 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