Three documentaries exploring particular and local elements of globalization
energy – food – labor – urban space – economics
Globalization represents a unique, ‘always on’, twenty-four hour global space created by high-speed transportation and networked global communications, and the free flow of capital around the world. The logic of globalization is planetary, but global effects are local and particular.
These films feature some of the most important and influential economists, scientists, and labor leaders ~ David Harvey, Edward Soja, Wes Jackson, Helen Lewis, Neil McKinnock, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Arthur Scargill, Betty Heathfield and more.
Buy all three and receive a 20% discount
Coming to Ground ($279.99)
Documenting agricultural history as Kentucky farmers experience the dismantling of the tobacco economy for a more sustainable one. This film makes a case for other state governments to adopt policies that follow the Kentucky model of state investment in small-scale agriculture. Featuring mountain farmer Bill Best, Mary Berry, Roger Thomas of the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy, plant scientist Wes Jackson, and more.
Hybrid City ($299.99)
A starkly well-photographed documentary on what the transition to a deregulated, neoliberal economy has meant for some of the major world cities, such as Atlanta, London, and Los Angeles. Augmented by interviews with such renowned scholars as David Harvey and Edward Soja, Hybrid City depicts the class and cultural separations and polarizations that are now present in new urban architecture and landscapes, the triumph of finance capital, and the diminishing rights to the city of marginalized social groups in the world urban centers.
From the Shadows of Power ($279.99)
A powerful story set in the coalfields of Appalachia, Wales and England that uncannily foreshadows the recent brutal growth of global capitalism and its impact on local economies and communities. It features Helen Lewis, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Britain’s Labor leaders Neil McKinnock, Arthur Scargill, Betty Heathfield, women miners from the Coal Employment Project and Britain’s Women Against Pit Closures.
