#jeremy seabrook

[oceanidae]

Jeremy Seabrook en "Race for Riches: Human Cost of Wealth"

(1990)

[wailingghosts]

Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

Jeremy Seabrook, The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

[wailingghosts]

There is one rule for the G-7 (richest countries) and another for the South. The G-7 now preaches open economies and liberalization, as well as 'good governance' and 'transparency'. Yet none of these things was conspicuous when the West grew rich.

Jeremy Seabrook, The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty

[thewreninitiative]

When incontinent desires becomes the norm – and in a society which is founded upon intensive consumption and the necessity of selling more and more things to people – restraint and abstinence become outlandish features that separate the weird and eccentric from the acceptable.

Jeremy Seabrook

[utopologist]

It would be foolish to pass from one distortion—that the slums are places of crime, disease, and despair—to the opposite: that they can be safely left to look after themselves.

Jeremy Seabrook