Consuming Cultures: Globalization and local lives

Seabrook, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904456081 ISBN 13: 9781904456087

Publisher: New Internationalist Publications Ltd, 2004

The hurtling speed of the global market knows no cultural boundaries. Languages, customs, rituals, and myths are swept aside with the global market's promise of security and prosperity. Is this promise false? Is the survival of pockets of local culture true resistance, or does it mean that cultural identities are being turned into commodities? Harnessing moving personal testimonies, this is a wide-ranging and sensitive exploration of the battleground between local and global.

Review:

No British writer has thought more deeply or reported so sharply on globalised culture and its heavy cost than Seabrook -- Independent, 7 January 2005

About the Author:

Jeremy Seabrook has written more than 30 books (including Travels in the Skin Trade, and Children of Other Worlds), and has worked as a teacher, social worker, journalist, lecturer and playwright. He has contributed to many journals, including the New Statesman and the Ecologist.