One No, Many Yeses by Paul Kingsnorth, Free Press (UK), £10, ISBN 0743220269 Reviewed by Fred Pearce
THIS is the first travel book of the anti-globalisation movement. You can probably perceive the contradiction already. It is a given that travel and communication are the great globalisers. Yet the Internet made this movement possible just as cheap air tickets made Paul Kingsnorth’s research possible.
But this is a post-Communist, postmodernist movement that happily drinks Coke and surfs the Web while decrying the forces of global capitalism that made them possible. These revolutionaries come from rainforests and shanties and college cloisters. They…
