UNC-Chapel Hill Professor James Peacock Shares His Latest:
Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World
On UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, September 7, at 9:30 PM

Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World, the latest book by author and Kenan Professor of Anthropology at UNC-Chapel Hill James L. Peacock, examines the impact of globalism on Southern identity.  In it, Peacock explores the present and the past to develop the idea of  “grounded globalism” in which global forces and local cultures rooted in history, tradition, and place reverberate against each other in mutually sustaining and energizing ways.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Friday, September 7, at 9:30 PM, Peacock explores questions of whether globalism threatens the south, stealing jobs and homogenizing our culture, or whether globalization transforms the south for the better, raising income levels and multiculturalism.

“I think the latter, more positive outcome is possible, and that’s one reason to write this book: to imagine how this possibility can happen,” says Peacock. “Needless to say, I’m an optimist.”

Don’t miss DG Martin’s all-new interview with James Peacock on North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, September 7, at 9:30 PM, with an encore episode airing Sunday, September 9, at 5 PM, only on UNC-TV!

During the 20-week, 10th anniversary season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests also include: J. Peder Zane (The Top Ten), Gov. Michael Easley (Look Out, College, Here I Come!), Michele Bowen (Holy Ghost Corner), Neal Thompson (Driving With the Devil), Joseph Bathanti (Coventry), Joanna Catherine Scott (The Road From Chapel Hill), James Dodson (Beautiful Madness), Dan Heath (Made To Stick), Margaret Maron (Hard Row), Tim Madigan (I’m Proud of You), Melton McLaurin (The Marines of Montford Point), Kathryn Stripling Byer (Coming to Rest), David Guy (Jake Fades),  Georgann Eubanks (Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains), Zelda Lockhart (Cold Running Creek), Mike Lassiter (Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait), Joe and Terry Graedon (Best Choices from the People’s Pharmacy), Fred Hobson (Off the Rim), and William Powell (Encyclopedia of North Carolina).

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