Consuming Cultures: Globalization and Local Lives

by Jeremy Seabrook

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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

296 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2006

About the author

Jeremy R. Seabrook was an English author and journalist who specialised in social, environmental and development issues. His book The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.

Reviews

[Williambasinskidisciple · Rating 4 out of 5]

An awareness of the dogmatic goal of globalization and the poisonous effet it bore on the cultural sanctity of colonized nations is laid out extremely well and concisely in here.
The last section is so bleak and unapologetic in its direct expression of disgust of capitalism through the detailing of the life of an individual caught in the rural exodus that I had to let out a few audible oh my gods.