Thesis C - Localization and its Fans
And the Regionalists Say…
In response to the effects of globalization, many groups have begun to lean toward localist behaviors; that is, they suggest that societies take part in the trend toward self-sufficiency so that they don’t have to depend on the forces of globalization to provide for them.
These trends have been around since the forces of globalization began. Even before there was a coined term to describe the deterioration of barriers, people were talking about ways to counteract the phenomenon. In the book Neighborhoood Power: The New Localism, published in 1975, David Morris and Karl Hess suggest that, to counter these effects, people should take part in “community housing… [and] collectively owned food stores and neighborhood production facilities” (15).
In another source, Helena Norberg-Hodge argues that “Increasingly, citizen groups around the world are beginning to argue that it is a highly centralized and subsidized economic system…that is the prime culprit behind so many of our personal, social and environmental ills…It is from this global economic system that people are starting to reclaim all that is clear to them: control over their jobs, their food, their communities, their environment, their lives…grassroots movements are pulling in the opposite direction: people are taking the economy into their own hands” (209).
Although there are many manifestations in Life of Pi, there are also many appearances of localism.
Where?
