Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Cafe and Other Non-Globalized Places, People and Ideas
- Non-Fiction
- 224 pages, 6×9 inches
- Price: $20 CAD · $20 USD
- ISBN: 9781554200054
- Date published: 2003-10-21
- Availability: in print & available
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About Local Matters
Brian Fawcetts first book of essays since 1991s Unusual Circumstances, Interesting Times, Local Matters tries to come to grips with a system behind what everyone calls "globalization", and to isolate some of its less publicized effects. A collection of thoughtful, irreverent, deliberately personal essays, Local Matters is a polemic against brandborne viruses, a love letter to one mans Toronto neighbourhood, and a road map to a better world. Many of the essays are developed from earlier versions published on dooneyscafe.com, the internet news service Fawcett runs with Stan Persky.