What is Global Culture?

One of the more contentious issues in Fitzroy surrounds the concept of cultural production and consumption. This is one of the recurring themes that you will find whilst viewing the interviews that have been indexed within the search engine. Fitzroy, like many other inner city suburbs, is renown for its ability to cultivate an active artistic community through its live pub venues, art galleries, and energetic street life. However, there are anxieties in the district that excessive commercialism is threatening the suburb. Rising rents and property values are forcing artists and other creators of culture out of the area and disrupting the 'creative ecology' of the district. In fact, in the past few years, incomes in Fitzroy and other inner-Melbourne suburbs have risen by a massive forty seven per cent (1). read more>>

Multinational entities increasingly view the world as a single entity for obtaining supplies, finance and for providing them with markets. The global company has subsumed the multinational both in its style and operationally because of the arrival of fully global markets, the availability of a global labour force, the emergence of global electronic commerce, and with some commodities, the existence of a global culture creating global fashions.(2)

(1) William Birnbauer and Orietta Guerrerra, "Incomes in Inner Cities Eclipse Eastern Suburbs in the Age, Melbourne, 18 June, 2002, p6.

(2) Richard Langhorne, The Coming of Globalisation: Its Evolution and contemporary Consequences, Palgrave, New York, 2001, p.28.