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In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have
been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in
the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of
world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen
in the last five years, with more and more people in debt,
especially the young. Economic inequalities will persist and
continue to grow for as long as we tolerate the injustices which
underpin them. This fully rewritten and updated edition revisits
Dorling's claim that Beveridge's five social evils are being
replaced by five new tenets of injustice: elitism is efficient;
exclusion is necessary; prejudice is natural; greed is good and
despair is inevitable. By showing these beliefs are unfounded,
Dorling offers hope of a more equal society. We are living in the
most remarkable and dangerous times. With every year that passes it
is more evident that Injustice is essential reading for anyone
concerned with social justice and wants to do something about it.
Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most
unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of
Inequality and the 1% shows that we are growing further and further
apart. Visiting sites across the British Isles and exploring the
social fissures that have emerged, Danny Dorling exposes a new
geography of inequality. Middle England has been hit hard by the
cost-of-living crisis, and even people doing comparatively well are
struggling to stay afloat. Once affluent suburbs are now
unproductive places where opportunity has been replaced by food
banks. Before COVID, life expectancy had dropped as a result of
poverty for the first time since the 1930s. Fifty years ago the UK
led the world in child health; today, twenty-two of the
twenty-seven EU countries have better mortality rates for newborns.
No other European country has such miserly unemployment benefits;
university fees so high; housing so unaffordable; or a government
economically so far to the right. In the spirit of the 1942
Beveridge Report, Dorling identifies the five giants of
twenty-first-century poverty that need to be conquered: Hunger,
Precarity, Waste, Exploitation, and Fear. He offers powerful
insights into how we got here and what we must do in order to save
Britain from becoming a failed state.
A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the
current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological
innovation The end of our high-growth world was underway well
before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument,
Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing
societal slowdown Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global
data, this groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been
slowing down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling
visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per
person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all
steadily declined over the last few generations. Perhaps most
surprising of all is the fact that even as new technologies
frequently reshape our everyday lives and are widely believed to be
propelling our civilization into new and uncharted waters, the rate
of technological progress is also rapidly dropping. Rather than
lament this turn of events, Dorling embraces it as a moment of
promise and a move toward stability, and he notes that many of the
older great strides in progress that have defined recent history
also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and
massive inequality.
How has UK society changed since 2001? What does the UK population
look like in 2016? This unique atlas, the third in a bestselling
series, uses a wealth of up-to-the minute data sources alongside
the last 2011 Census data to identify national and local trends and
provide analysis and discussion of the implications of these for
future policy. Fascinating information on everything from sex, age,
marriage and ethnicity to qualifications, employment, housing and
migration is provided in gloriously colourful maps and graphics.
Packed with at-a-glance data tracking the period from boom to bust
and beyond to the new Conservative government of 2015, key features
include the analysis of over 100,000 demographic statistics and the
use of new cartographic projections and techniques, all laid out in
an attractive and accessible format. Put together, this is the most
accessible guide to social change over the past 15 years in the UK.
Nuanced interconnections of poverty and educational attainment
around the UK are surveyed in this unique analysis. Across the four
jurisdictions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,
experts consider the impact of curriculum reforms and devolved
policy making on the lives of children and young people in poverty.
They investigate differences in educational ideologies and
structures, and question whether they help or hinder schools
seeking to support disadvantaged and marginalised groups. For
academics and students engaged in education and social justice,
this is a vital exploration of poverty's profound effects on
inequalities in educational attainment and the opportunities to
improve school responses.
Nuanced interconnections of poverty and educational attainment
around the UK are surveyed in this unique analysis. Across the four
jurisdictions of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland,
experts consider the impact of curriculum reforms and devolved
policy making on the lives of children and young people in poverty.
They investigate differences in educational ideologies and
structures, and question whether they help or hinder schools
seeking to support disadvantaged and marginalised groups. For
academics and students engaged in education and social justice,
this is a vital exploration of poverty's profound effects on
inequalities in educational attainment and the opportunities to
improve school responses.
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In
the USA and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent
not seen for over a century. Most peoples' health is much better
now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions,
between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now
surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost
all other affluent countries, inequalities in health are lower and
people live longer. In his new book, academic and writer Danny
Dorling describes the current extent of inequalities in health as
the scandal of our times. He provides nine new chapters and updates
a wide selection of his highly influential writings on health,
including international peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures,
newspaper articles, and interview transcripts, to create an
accessible collection that is both contemporary and authoritative.
As a whole the book shows conclusively that inequalities in health
are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations
and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the
near future.
Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In
the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not
seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now
than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between
cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the
worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other
affluent countries, inequalities in health are lower and people
live longer. In his new book, academic and writer Danny Dorling
describes the current extent of inequalities in health as the
scandal of our times. He provides nine new chapters and updates a
wide selection of his highly influential writings on health,
including international-peer reviewed studies, annotated lectures,
newspaper articles, and interview transcripts, to create an
accessible collection that is both contemporary and authoritative.
As a whole the book shows conclusively that inequalities in health
are the scandal of our times in the most unequal of rich nations
and calls for immediate action to reduce these inequalities in the
near future.
WHEN EMPIRES CRUMBLE, WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE LEFT IN THE RUINS? In
Rule Britannia, Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson argue that the
vote to leave the EU was the last gasp of the old empire working
its way out of the British psyche. Fuelled by a misplaced
nostalgia, the result was driven by a lack of knowledge of our
imperial history, by a profound anxiety about Britain's status
today, and by a deeply unrealistic vision of our future. At a time
when close relationships with our near neighbours are more crucial
than ever before, Britain has opted to surrender its remaining
influence and squander international goodwill. And yet, there is
hope. In this wide-ranging and thoughtful analysis, now fully
updated to cover the fallout from Brexit and the impact of
coronavirus, Dorling and Tomlinson argue that if Britain can
reconcile itself to its new place on the world stage, a new
identity can be born from the ashes. Rule Britannia is a powerful
call to leave behind the jingoistic ignorance of the past and build
a fairer Britain, eradicating the inequality that blights our
society and embracing our true strengths.
Inequality is the key political issue of our time. Here Dorling
brings together brand new material alongside a carefully curated
selection of his most recent writing on inequality from
publications as wide ranging as the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian,
New Statesman, Financial Times and the China People's Daily.
Covering key inequality issues including politics, housing,
education and health, he explores whether we have now reached 'peak
inequality'. He concludes, crucially, by predicting what the future
holds for Britain, as attempts are made to defuse the ticking time
bomb while we simultaneously try to negotiate Brexit and react to
the wider international situation of a world of people demanding to
become more equal.
Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die? The
Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense -
makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical
differences in key socio-economic variables - like education,
health, and work - that illustrate the UK's stark social
inequalities and affect everyone's lives. Written for undergraduate
students across social science disciplines, this unique text
presents a social geography of the UK which: Contains over 100
maps. These are drawn in proportion to the numbers of people being
depicted and so represent the human geography of the UK in a fair
way. Visualises quantitative evidence. The very latest statistics
from numerous sources - including the 2010 election - reveal the
many aspects of the underlying geographical structure of society in
the UK. Relates geographies of identity to geographies of
inequality, mortality, work, and settlement, and in a final chapter
shows how the UK's population fits in to the world picture of who
has most of what, and where. Using the most advanced cartographic
techniques of social mapping employed anywhere in the world, The
Population of the UK explains the nuts and bolts of UK population
in comparative context. A note on data: Much of the data comes from
2010 and 2011. However, because as yet only the age and sex data
from the 2011 census has been released the book shows 2001 patterns
where only census data can reveal it. As 2011 census data is
released, Danny plans to update the maps on-line.
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Many of us think of European
countries as discreet entities-their own languages, cultures, food,
and economies squarely contained within their national boundaries.
But in fact Europe is at once a unified place and a sophisticatedly
fragmented one, and national boundaries rarely reflect its social
and economic realities. The social atlas of Europe is the first
atlas to map Europe according to these realities, from the
perspective of human geography rather than simply a political one.
Using innovative full-color visualization methods, it reconsiders
European identity through its many different facets: economy,
culture, history, and human and physical geography, visualizing
Europe and its people in a more fluid way, in some cases using maps
without artificial national boundaries. It utilizes the latest
available demographic, social, and economic data through
state-of-the-art geographical information systems and new
cartography techniques. Through these new visualizations, this
highly illustrated book offers fresh perspectives on a range of
topics, including social values, culture, education, employment,
environmental footprints, health and well-being, and social
inequalities and cohesion. It is a bold rethinking of Europe as we
know it and will be of interest to anyone who wants to understand
the continent in its truest form.
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Geography gives
shape to our innate curiosity; cartography is older than writing.
Channelling our twin urges to explore and understand, geographers
uncover the hidden connections of human existence, from infant
mortality in inner cities to the decision-makers who fly overhead
in executive jets, from natural disasters to over-use of fossil
fuels. In this incisive introduction to the subject, Danny Dorling
and Carl Lee reveal geography as a science which tackles all of the
biggest issues that face us today, from globalisation to equality,
from sustainability to population growth, from climate change to
changing technology - and the complex interactions between them
all. Illustrated by a series of award-winning maps created by
Benjamin D. Hennig, this is a book for anyone who wants to know
more about why our world is the way it is today, and where it might
be heading next.
What does Brexit actually mean for the UK and what are the wider
implications for Europe? Was the UK 'leave' vote actually
symptomatic of broader issues within Europe such as population
mobility and the rise of non-traditional parties? Written by
leading international authors, this timely atlas explores Europe's
society, culture, economy, politics and environment using state of
the art mapping techniques With maps covering over 80 topics
ranging from life expectancy, greenhouse gas emissions, GDP to
Eurovision voting, The Human Atlas of Europe addresses fundamental
questions around social cohesion and sustainable growth as Europe
negotiates the UK's exit while continuing through the economic
crisis. This concise, accessible atlas is packed with exciting
features, including: * short introductions to each topic * maps
using the very latest data * infographics bringing this all to life
* summaries of key information including league tables * core
statistics on Europe Taken as a whole, the atlas shows how
geographical and state boundaries only tell a partial story and
that we still live in a far more cohesive Europe than we realise.
The 2020 World Happiness Report ranked Finland, for the third year
running, as the world’s happiest country. The "Nordic Model" has
long been touted as the aspiration for social and public policy in
Europe and North America, but what is it about Finland that makes
the country so successful and seemingly such a great place to live?
Is it simply the level of government spending on health, education
and welfare? Is it that Finland has one of the lowest rates of
social inequality and childhood poverty, and highest levels of
literacy and education? Finland clearly has problems of its own –
for example, a high level of gun ownership and high rates of
suicide – which can make Finns sceptical of their ranking, but
its consistently high performance across a range of well-being
indicators does raise fascinating questions. In the quest for the
best of all possible societies, Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen
explore what we might learn from Finnish success.
The aim of this book is to inspire a better politics: one that will
enable future generations to be happier. Greater well-being and
better health should be the goals - rather than wealth
maximization. We need to value health-care more than hedge-funds,
caring above careers, relationships more than real-estate.
Happiness is the avoidance of misery, the gaining of long-term life
satisfaction, the feeling of fulfilment, of worth, of kindness, of
usefulness and of love. The book is about what makes most of us
happier, but it is also about the collective good. We cannot truly
be happy if those around us are not happy. Individualist attempts
at self-improvement - or only looking after yourself and your
family - do not work in the long-run. This book looks at the
evidence for a successful politics that would promote happiness and
health. It suggests policies that take account of this evidence.
Government can and should work to make us happier.
Did you know that where you were born may affect when you die? The
Population of the UK explains how geography - in the widest sense -
makes a difference to life outcomes. It explains the geographical
differences in key socio-economic variables - like education,
health, and work - that illustrate the UK's stark social
inequalities and affect everyone's lives. Written for undergraduate
students across social science disciplines, this unique text
presents a social geography of the UK which: Contains over 100
maps. These are drawn in proportion to the numbers of people being
depicted and so represent the human geography of the UK in a fair
way. Visualises quantitative evidence. The very latest statistics
from numerous sources - including the 2010 election - reveal the
many aspects of the underlying geographical structure of society in
the UK. Relates geographies of identity to geographies of
inequality, mortality, work, and settlement, and in a final chapter
shows how the UK's population fits in to the world picture of who
has most of what, and where. Using the most advanced cartographic
techniques of social mapping employed anywhere in the world, The
Population of the UK explains the nuts and bolts of UK population
in comparative context. A note on data: Much of the data comes from
2010 and 2011. However, because as yet only the age and sex data
from the 2011 census has been released the book shows 2001 patterns
where only census data can reveal it. As 2011 census data is
released, Danny plans to update the maps on-line.
Since the Great Recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer
while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the
haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich
have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone else has
suffered the penalties of austerity. But inequality is more than
just economics. Being born outside the 1% has a dramatic impact on
a person's potential: reducing life expectancy, limiting
educational and work prospects, and even affecting mental health.
What is to be done? In Inequality and the 1% leading social thinker
Danny Dorling lays bare the extent and true cost of the division in
our society and asks what have the super-rich ever done for us? He
shows that it is the 1% that threatens us with the most harm and
why we must urgently redress the balance
The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19
arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling
demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown
Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this
groundbreaking book reveals that human progress has been slowing
down since the early 1970s. Danny Dorling uses compelling
visualizations to illustrate how fertility rates, growth in GDP per
person, and even the frequency of new social movements have all
steadily declined over the last few generations. Perhaps most
surprising of all is the fact that even as new technologies
frequently reshape our everyday lives and are widely believed to be
propelling our civilization into new and uncharted waters, the rate
of technological progress is also rapidly dropping. Rather than
lament this turn of events, Dorling embraces it as a moment of
promise and a move toward stability, and he notes that many of the
older great strides in progress that have defined recent history
also brought with them widespread warfare, divided societies, and
massive inequality.
The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and
differentially. This original study of the fourteen general
elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias
in those election results increased substantially over the period,
benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour's
advantage peaked at the 1997 general election when, even assuming
there had been an equal share of the votes for the two parties, it
would have won 82 more seats than its opponents. This situation
came about because of different aspects of two well-known electoral
abuses - malapportionment and gerrymandering. With the use of
imaginative diagrams the book examines these processes in detail,
illustrating how they operate and stresses the important role of
tactical voting in the production of recent election results. -- .
Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two
centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves
shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies
more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children
per adult: our population is about to stabilize, though we do not
know when or at what number, or what will happen after that. It
will be the result of billions of very private decisions influenced
in turn by multiple events and policies, some more unpredictable
than others. More people are moving further around the world than
ever before: we too often see that as frightening, rather than as
indicating greater freedom. Similarly, we too often lament greater
ageing, rather than recognizing it as a tremendous human
achievement with numerous benefits to which we must adapt.
Demography comes to the fore most positively when we see that we
have choices, when we understand variation and when we are not
deterministic in our prescriptions. The study of demography has for
too long been dominated by pessimism and inhuman, simplistic
accounting. As this fascinating and persuasive overview
demonstrates, how we understand our demography needs to change
again.
How can very recent UK trends in the years 2011-2015 be understood
in the context of detailed maps of social change in the 10 years
between 2001 and 2011? This unique atlas, the third in a
bestselling series, uses a wealth of up-to-the minute data sources
alongside 2011 Census data. It shows national and local trends and
provides analysis of the implications of these for future policy.
Packed with at-a-glance data tracking the period from boom to bust
and beyond to the new Conservative government of 2015, key features
include the analysis of over 100,000 demographic statistics and the
use of new cartographic projections and techniques, all laid out in
an attractive and accessible format. Put together, this is the most
accessible guide to social change over the past 15 years, and is
essential reading for all those working in local authorities,
health authorities, and statutory and voluntary organisations, as
well as for researchers, students, policy makers, journalists and
politicians interested in social geography, social policy, social
justice and social change. This is the only social atlas of the
2011 Census that explains so much about how all of the UK is
changing.
In All That is Solid Danny Dorling offers an agenda-shaping look at
the UK's dangerous relationship with housing - and how it's all
going to come crashing down Housing was at the heart of the
financial collapse, and our economy is now precariously reliant on
the housing market. In this ground-breaking book, Danny Dorling
argues that housing is the defining issue of our times. Tracing how
we got to our current crisis and how housing has come to reflect
class and wealth in Britain, All That Is Solid shows that the
solution to our problems - rising homelessness, a generation priced
out of home ownership - is not, as is widely assumed, building more
homes. Inequality, he argues, is what we really need to overcome.
'An urgent book about an urgent topic' - Lynsey Hanley, New
Statesman 'A brilliantly original study of our national obsession'
- Nick Cohen, Observer Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor
in Geography at the University of Oxford. He has worked both with
the British government and the World Health Organization and is
frequently asked to comment on current issues on TV and the radio.
He has published more than twenty-five books, including Injustice:
Why Social Inequality Exists, So You Think You Know About Britain?
and The 32 Stops for Penguin Underground Lines.
Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations
had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in
2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the
2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much
earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1
billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human
population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a
century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on
the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it? Distinguished
geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so
much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we
will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating
chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to
its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it
took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by
2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by
2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the
key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal
with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become
more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is
the population decline that will occur after 10 billion. Population
10 Billion is a major work by one of the world's leading
geographers and will change the way you think about the future.
Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book
is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the
right questions
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After Independence (Paperback)
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At the height of the Scottish Independence debate, After
Independence offers an in-depth and varied exploration of the
possibilities for Scotland, from both pro and anti-independence
standpoints. Drawing together over two dozen leading minds on the
subject, After Independence offers a comprehensive and balanced
analysis of Scotland’s current and prospective political,
economic, social and cultural situation. Brought together in an
inclusive, accessible and informative way, After Independence asks
and answers a range of questions crucial to the Independence debate
and invites its readers to become involved at this crucial moment
of Scottish history in the making.
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