Jeremy Seabrook
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy Seabrook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy |
| FAMILY NAME | Seabrook |
| SIGNATURE | SEABROOK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indranet, Bombay, and author of The Myth of the Market (Green Books, 1990); with Winin Pereira, Asking the Earth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The present imperium
The author reflects on current trends to explore the historical record of the injustices of colonial racism and slavery, and raises the question of whether this changed mood of regret over the past bears any relation to, or significance for, the ongoing depredations visited on the most impoverished of the world today. For these still appear largely invisible. In the process, he encompasses the growing threat of catastrophic global warming and env…
Human resourcefulness in a time of diminishing resources
In a powerful polemic, the author explains how the 'moral' dimension of progress is no longer defensible. In fact, material improvement, he argues, is a substitute for moral progress as rich societies devour the planet and teach the world that consumption = civilisation. The present crisis is not merely of our climate but also of our social, moral and spiritual futures. There is, he contends, no damage to the earth which does not have its counter…
The age of the incendiarist
In an evocative polemic the author traces the ways in which man-made fire, 'incendiarism against creation', has marked the planet in the last century. Starting with the burning Amazon forests but taking in Grenfell, he looks back to personal experiences of war-time bombing, knowledge of Hiroshima, Vietnam and Star Wars. As the Cold War ended, human detonation became the new risk. Prosperity, which should have provided a shield, has, instead, engu…
Orphans
Orphans have often been beneficiaries of charity and compassion--but society has also punished, abused and ill-treated them. Attitudes behind this maltreatment are rooted in ideas that those without parents are disruptive, malevolent, and in need of discipline. Drawing on historic documents, interviews and memoirs, Jeremy Seabrook charts history's changing and often loose definitions of 'orphans', and explores their many 'makers'--from natural or…
The mental health of societies
It has been common to think that societies which become pathological and extreme are the responsibility of deranged leaders such as Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Jong-Un or Saddam Hussein. In fact these are usually a reflection and symbol of deeper social disorders. This article considers the mental health of societies, and looks at the loss of equilibrium in what have liked to think of themselves as models for the rest of the world to follow. The advent …
How the lifestyle of the rich became anthropogenic activity in the climate change debate
The author argues that originally concern about the destruction of the ecosphere rested on an awareness of the damaging technologies which sustained the lifestyle of the rich world. There was an emphasis on the unsustainability of development based on a permanently expanding economy and the need to address the abuse of resources and extravagance of the North at the expense of the South. Now, and particularly after the disintegration of the Soviet…
The divorced woman
In this personal memoir, the author returns to the dissolution of his mother's marriage with an abusive husband, and the impact it had upon her life in a working-class town in 1950s Britain. The divorced woman was subject to social humiliation, while the failed relationship marked her out for suspicion among other women in the community, and the unwelcome advances of their husbands. The article reflects on the nature of the welfare state as a mea…
The price of 'progress'? From Senghenydd to Savar
The response to the disaster of the clothing factories' collapse in Savar, just outside Dhaka, in April 2013 with the loss of over 1,100 young lives, echoes the reaction to the greatest industrial calamity ever to have occurred in Britain. This took place in 1913, exactly one hundred years earlier - the Senghenydd pit disaster, which claimed the lives of 439 miners. Predictably, in the West in 2013, the conscience of the penitent cheaply clad too…
People Without History
In the city of hunger
The city of Barisal in the south of Bangladesh, on the flood plain of the Bay of Bengal, reveals in microcosm the injuries inflicted on the poor and dispossessed of the world by imperialism, colonial expropriation and globalism. The loss of peasant land to the Meghna, exacerbated by corruption, greed and outright theft, has driven many to eking out the most marginal living in this poorest of cities or migrating onwards to the grim brickfields and…
The Refuge and the Fortress
In the 75th anniversary of CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee Academics), this book explores the experiences and achievements of refugee academics and their rescuers to recount Britain's past relatio
British radicals
How are the dissenting voices of the past - pilloried and persecuted in their own time - later domesticated and neutered in order to embellish the myth of inevitable progress to today's best of all possible worlds
The living dead of capitalism
In the usual accounts of industrialism's resistless march, what is ignored is the coercive dissolution of whole ways of life that were once promoted as embodiments of virtue, and the associated psychic and spiritual pain resulting from the loss of coherence and purpose in one's life. Even those appointed by capitalism to privileged positions are vulnerable to industrial society's lurches from one mode of being to the next. And, when the young reb…
A World Growing Old
Introduction - The ageing population of the world: demographic time-bomb or unique opportunity? Some facts and figures 1. Ageing and the role of the elderly in the changing cultures of the world 2. Work and the elderly, in the West and the South 3. Themes and issues (i) Widowhood (ii) Witchcraft (iii) Remembering (iv) ...and forgetting (v) Sex in old age (vi) Ageing and sexual minorities (vii) Stranded in a world moving on (viii) Poverty in old a…
No Hiding Place
The Soul of Man under Globalism
There are many macro-economic accounts of globalisation, but we rarely learn how it affects the psyche and sensibility of lives uprooted and radically reshaped by the penetration of their world by the market economy. This essay is an attempt to convey the common subjective experience of people all over the world as they enter the global market. It shows how, once they do so, the path they will follow is predictable. The market generates immediate…
Travels in the Skin Trade
Children Of Other Worlds
More than 40,000 children die daily in the developing world from avoidable sickness and disease. Tens of millions of children labour in mines, mills and sweatshops, or scavenge for a living on city streets and dumps. In the so-called developed world, children's lives are similarly blighted by drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and violence. Children of the rich are unhealthily obsessed with consumerist desires while children of the poor suffer from lac…
Travels in the skin trade
Women in the sex industry in Thailand have been for a long time the object of international investigation, both by Western scholars and media people. Through their studies and reports, women in Thailand are viewed as 'the other women', whose status is perceived as lower than that of women in the West. Moral judgements, paternalistic attitudes towards Thai society in general, and Thai women in particular, are commonplace when one reads publication…
Commentary
Love in a Different Climate
In this carefully researched and finely written work, Jeremy Seabrook deals with subjects rarely discussed in Western narratives about South Asia. Going beyond a straightforward contextualisation of the gatoei (lady-boys) in Thailand and the hijara (eunuchs) of India, he unravels the less familiar and more complex territory of homosexual and homoerotic encounters in general, and asks how valid Western models of sexual identity are in the South As…
Men Who Have Sex with Men in India
Children of the market
L'A. souligne que la protection des droits de l'enfant apparait de plus en plus comme une preoccupation fondamentale. Il affirme que la globalisation de l'economie se revele un bien plus redoutable obstacle pour la reconnaissances des droits de l'enfant que les coutumes ou les croyances traditionnelles. Il examine la situation de l'enfant dans les pays developpes dans les annees 1990. Il souligne que ceux-ci sont des consommateurs a part entiere …
Convergence, welfare and development
Travels in the Skin Trade
Press coverage of the sex trade in Thailand routinely consists of moralizing and sensationalist denunciations of this infamous industry. Through the words of sex workers, performers, and all those who provide services within the sex industry - and their clients - this book poses some controversial questions: who are the real beggars - those who sell their bodies for derisory amounts of money, or those who travel halfway around the world for the s…
Victims of Development
Commentary
Biotechnology and genetic diversity
Unemployment Now and in the 1930s
In the city of hunger
The city of Barisal in the south of Bangladesh, on the flood plain of the Bay of Bengal, reveals in microcosm the injuries inflicted on the poor and dispossessed of the world by imperialism, colonial expropriation and globalism. The loss of peasant land to the Meghna, exacerbated by corruption, greed and outright theft, has driven many to eking out the most marginal living in this poorest of cities or migrating onwards to the grim brickfields and…
The Soul of Man under Globalism
There are many macro-economic accounts of globalisation, but we rarely learn how it affects the psyche and sensibility of lives uprooted and radically reshaped by the penetration of their world by the market economy. This essay is an attempt to convey the common subjective experience of people all over the world as they enter the global market. It shows how, once they do so, the path they will follow is predictable. The market generates immediate…
Men Who Have Sex with Men in India
Children of the market
L'A. souligne que la protection des droits de l'enfant apparait de plus en plus comme une preoccupation fondamentale. Il affirme que la globalisation de l'economie se revele un bien plus redoutable obstacle pour la reconnaissances des droits de l'enfant que les coutumes ou les croyances traditionnelles. Il examine la situation de l'enfant dans les pays developpes dans les annees 1990. Il souligne que ceux-ci sont des consommateurs a part entiere …
Development as colonialism
L'un des projets de la branche outre-mer du Ministere du Developpement de la Grande-Bretagne (Overseas Development Administration, ODA) est un vaste plan d'amenagement et de gestion de la foret dans la region ouest des ghats de l'Inde. Le but est egalement de faire participer les habitants pauvres de cette region dans le processus de decision quant a la gestion de la foret et notamment les femmes dans l'exploitation forestiere. L'A., qui s'est re…
The reconquest of India
Unemployment Now and in the 1930s
The leisure society
The reconquest of India
Death of a socialist
Biotechnology and genetic diversity
Victims of Development
Travels in the Skin Trade
Press coverage of the sex trade in Thailand routinely consists of moralizing and sensationalist denunciations of this infamous industry. Through the words of sex workers, performers, and all those who provide services within the sex industry - and their clients - this book poses some controversial questions: who are the real beggars - those who sell their bodies for derisory amounts of money, or those who travel halfway around the world for the s…
Victims of Development
This combination of analysis and first-hand reportage looks at the connections between development, economic growth, social justice and the environment - not in theory, but as this tangle of relationships affects people in their daily lives. It is rooted in the experience and struggles of people all over the world - in the Himalayas or on the islands of Malaysia, in the slums of Manila and Delhi or the tenements of Sao Paulo, as well as in the in…
Development as colonialism
L'un des projets de la branche outre-mer du Ministere du Developpement de la Grande-Bretagne (Overseas Development Administration, ODA) est un vaste plan d'amenagement et de gestion de la foret dans la region ouest des ghats de l'Inde. Le but est egalement de faire participer les habitants pauvres de cette region dans le processus de decision quant a la gestion de la foret et notamment les femmes dans l'exploitation forestiere. L'A., qui s'est re…
Convergence, welfare and development
Men Who Have Sex with Men in India
Children of the market
L'A. souligne que la protection des droits de l'enfant apparait de plus en plus comme une preoccupation fondamentale. Il affirme que la globalisation de l'economie se revele un bien plus redoutable obstacle pour la reconnaissances des droits de l'enfant que les coutumes ou les croyances traditionnelles. Il examine la situation de l'enfant dans les pays developpes dans les annees 1990. Il souligne que ceux-ci sont des consommateurs a part entiere …
Love in a Different Climate
In this carefully researched and finely written work, Jeremy Seabrook deals with subjects rarely discussed in Western narratives about South Asia. Going beyond a straightforward contextualisation of the gatoei (lady-boys) in Thailand and the hijara (eunuchs) of India, he unravels the less familiar and more complex territory of homosexual and homoerotic encounters in general, and asks how valid Western models of sexual identity are in the South As…
Commentary
Travels in the Skin Trade
Children Of Other Worlds
More than 40,000 children die daily in the developing world from avoidable sickness and disease. Tens of millions of children labour in mines, mills and sweatshops, or scavenge for a living on city streets and dumps. In the so-called developed world, children's lives are similarly blighted by drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse and violence. Children of the rich are unhealthily obsessed with consumerist desires while children of the poor suffer from lac…
Travels in the skin trade
Women in the sex industry in Thailand have been for a long time the object of international investigation, both by Western scholars and media people. Through their studies and reports, women in Thailand are viewed as 'the other women', whose status is perceived as lower than that of women in the West. Moral judgements, paternalistic attitudes towards Thai society in general, and Thai women in particular, are commonplace when one reads publication…
No Hiding Place
The Soul of Man under Globalism
There are many macro-economic accounts of globalisation, but we rarely learn how it affects the psyche and sensibility of lives uprooted and radically reshaped by the penetration of their world by the market economy. This essay is an attempt to convey the common subjective experience of people all over the world as they enter the global market. It shows how, once they do so, the path they will follow is predictable. The market generates immediate…
A World Growing Old
Introduction - The ageing population of the world: demographic time-bomb or unique opportunity? Some facts and figures 1. Ageing and the role of the elderly in the changing cultures of the world 2. Work and the elderly, in the West and the South 3. Themes and issues (i) Widowhood (ii) Witchcraft (iii) Remembering (iv) ...and forgetting (v) Sex in old age (vi) Ageing and sexual minorities (vii) Stranded in a world moving on (viii) Poverty in old a…
The living dead of capitalism
In the usual accounts of industrialism's resistless march, what is ignored is the coercive dissolution of whole ways of life that were once promoted as embodiments of virtue, and the associated psychic and spiritual pain resulting from the loss of coherence and purpose in one's life. Even those appointed by capitalism to privileged positions are vulnerable to industrial society's lurches from one mode of being to the next. And, when the young reb…
The Refuge and the Fortress
In the 75th anniversary of CARA (Council for Assisting Refugee Academics), this book explores the experiences and achievements of refugee academics and their rescuers to recount Britain's past relatio
British radicals
How are the dissenting voices of the past - pilloried and persecuted in their own time - later domesticated and neutered in order to embellish the myth of inevitable progress to today's best of all possible worlds
In the city of hunger
The city of Barisal in the south of Bangladesh, on the flood plain of the Bay of Bengal, reveals in microcosm the injuries inflicted on the poor and dispossessed of the world by imperialism, colonial expropriation and globalism. The loss of peasant land to the Meghna, exacerbated by corruption, greed and outright theft, has driven many to eking out the most marginal living in this poorest of cities or migrating onwards to the grim brickfields and…
People Without History
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works)