Fair Play

by Dorling, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781847428790
• ISBN10: 1847428797
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Policy Pr

Summary

This accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by Danny Dorling which look at inequality and social justice, why they matter and what they are. Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media - including newspaper articles and key publications - 'Playing fair' provides evidence that Britain is becoming more politically, socially and economically divided whilst coming together in terms of educational outcomes and reduced segregation by ethnicity.

Author Biography

Daniel Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield. Before becoming a researcher and teacher he worked in children's playgroups and play-schemes. He has taught in universities in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand. He is an Academician of the Academy of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences, a patron of the charity Road Peace and is current president of the Society of Cartographers.

Table of Contents

Sources of extracts	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Inequality and poverty	p. 11
Prime suspect: murder in Britain	p. 13
The dream that turned pear-shaped	p. 31
The soul searching within New Labour	p. 41
Unequal Britain	p. 49
Axing the child poverty measure is wrong	p. 57
Injustice and ideology	p. 61
Brutal budget to entrench inequality	p. 63
New Labour and Inequality:Thatcherism Continued?	p. 65
All in the mind? Why social inequalities persist	p. 83
Glass conflict: David Cameron's claim to understand poverty	p. 93
Clearing the poor away	p. 97
Race and identity	p. 101
Ghettos in the sky	p. 103
Worlds apart: how inequality breeds fear and prejudice in Britain	p. 111
How much evidence do you need? Ethnicity, harm and crime	p. 115
UK medical school admissions by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex	p. 121
Race and the repercussions of recession	p. 125
Education and hierarchy	p. 131
What's it to do with the price of fish?	p. 133
Little progress towards a fairer education system	p. 139
One of Labour's great successes	p. 147
Do three points make a trend?	p. 149
Educational mobility in England and Germany	p. 155
Cash and the not so classless society	p. 159
Britain must close the great pay divide	p. 165
Raising equality in access to higher education	p. 170
Elitism and geneticism	p. 187
The Darwins and the Cecils are only empty vessels	p. 189
The Fabian essay: the myth of inherited inequality	p. 193
The return to elitism in education	p. 199
The super-rich are still soaring away	p. 209
Mobility and employment	p. 215
The trouble with moving upmarket	p. 217
Britain - split and divided by inequality	p. 221
London and the English desert: the grain of truth in a stereotype	p. 225
Are the times changing back?	p. 237
Unemployment and health	p. 243
Bricks and mortar	p. 247
Mortality amongst street sleeping youth in the UK	p. 249
Daylight robbery: there's no shortage of housing	p. 251
The influence of selective migration patterns	p. 255
The geography of poverty, inequality and wealth in the UK and abroad	p. 263
All connected? Geographies of race, death, wealth, votes and births	p. 291
Wellbeing and misery	p. 297
Against the organization of misery? The Marmot Review of Health Inequalities	p. 299
Inequality kills	p. 307
The geography of social inequality and health	p. 311
The cartographer's mad project	p. 327
The fading of the dream: widening inequalities in life expectancy in America	p. 333
The importance of circumstance, section from: anecdote is the singular of data	p. 339
Advocacy and action	p. 345
Mean machine: how structural inequality makes social inequality seem natural	p. 347
Policing the borders of crime: who decides research?	p. 351
Learning the hard way	p. 357
When the social divide deepens	p. 363
Ending the scandal of complacency	p. 365
Our grandchildren will wonder why we were addicted to social inequality	p. 369
Mind the gap: New Labour's legacy on child poverty	p. 373
Remapping the world's population: visualizing data using cartograms	p. 379
If I were king	p. 385
Bibliography	p. 387
Index	p. 389
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