Jeremy Seabrook (born 1939) is an English author and journalist specialising in social, environmental and development issues.[1] His book The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny was longlisted for the Orwell Prize.[2]
Early life and career
editSeabrook was born in Northampton. He was educated at Northampton Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating with a degree in Modern and Medieval Languages in 1960.[3] He worked as a teacher and as a social worker, and began writing for the journal New Society in 1963.[4] In addition to contributing articles to newspapers and magazines, Seabrook has also written numerous books and plays for television, radio and theatre, including several collaborations with his old schoolfriend Michael O'Neil.[4][5]
Written works (partial list)
edit- The Unprivileged (1973)
- City Close-Up (1974)
- A Lasting Relationship (1976)
- What went wrong?: Working People and the Ideals of the Labour Movement (1977) (published in the United States as What went wrong?: Why Hasn’t Having More Made People Happier?)[6]
- Mother and Son (1980)
- Working Class Childhood (1982)
- Unemployment in the Eighties (1983)
- Idea of Neighbourhood, The (1984)
- Landscapes of Poverty (1985)
- Life and Labour in a Bombay Slum (1987)
- The Race for Riches: Human Cost of Wealth (1988)
- The Myth of the Market: Promises and Illusions (1990)
- Victims of Development: Resistance and Alternatives (1993)
- Notes From Another India (1995)
- In the Cities of the South (1996)
- Travels in the Skin Trade (1996)
- Colonies of the Heart (1997)
- Love in a Different Climate: Men who have Sex with Men in India (1999)
- Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market (2001)
- Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today (2001)
- A World Growing Old (2003)
- Consuming Cultures: Globalization and Local Lives (2004)
- The No-nonsense Guide to Class, Caste and Hierarchy (2005)
- The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty (2007)
- People Without History: India's Muslim Ghettos (2007)
- The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny (2008)
- The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries (2014)
- Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain (2023)
Turkish translations
edit- Başka Dünyaların Çocukları: Küresel Piyasada Sömürü, çev: Onur Gayretli, Fol Kitap, 2021.
References
edit- ^ "Jeremy Seabrook | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
- ^ "Jeremy Seabrook | the Orwell Foundation". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^ 'Cambridge Tripos Results', Times, 20 June 1960, p. 20.
- ^ a b Jeremy Seabrook - About'. jeremyseabrook.net. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ Gill, Peter (15 March 2012). 'From an interview with Michael O'Neill and Jeremy Seabrook'. petergill7.co.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
- ^ Seabrook, Jeremy (19 April 2017). "What I learned about class after my twin brother and I were separated by the 11-plus". New Statesman. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
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