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

Seabrook 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)

  • 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

  • Başka Dünyaların Çocukları: Küresel Piyasada Sömürü, çev: Onur Gayretli, Fol Kitap, 2021.

References

  1. ↑ "Jeremy Seabrook | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
  2. ↑ "Jeremy Seabrook | the Orwell Foundation". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  3. ↑ 'Cambridge Tripos Results', Times, 20 June 1960, p. 20.
  4. 1 2 Jeremy Seabrook - About'. jeremyseabrook.net. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  5. ↑ Gill, Peter (15 March 2012). 'From an interview with Michael O'Neill and Jeremy Seabrook'. petergill7.co.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2021.
  6. ↑ 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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