Based on ethnographic research in London, this study investigates globalization as a feature of everyday life. Rejecting simplifying notions of globalization as a macro-economic force, it provides a grounded picture of various ways in which people's biographical trajectories are tied up with the global cultural economy. While recent debates in the social sciences started to investigate the link between globalization and biography in general, this study more specifically stresses the catalytic function of the global city environment. The idea of milieu has always linked people to their...