The Geography Of Slowdown: The End Of The Great Acceleration- And Why That Is Good For The Planet, The Economy, And Our Lives Danny Dorling podcast

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If we found seven typical 6-year-old children to represent today’s UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal? Amid the cost-of-living crisis, this could be a depressing story, when even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. Yet aspirations endure, and there are many signs that things could be getting better. What do we miss when we focus only on the super-rich and the most deprived? What kinds of lives are British children living between the extremes? And how can we reverse the trends that have in recent years been leaving most children worse off than their parents?…

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Danny Dorling and Poly Toynbee discuss the book: "Seven Children". 44:43

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Social scientist and inequality expert Danny Dorling discusses his latest work, Seven Children, an immersive and highly original study of child inequality, in a conversation at Foyles with Polly Toynbee. Foyles bookshop, Charring Cross Road, London, September 12th 2024.

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How Oxford has changed, the work of Donnington Doorstep, and something personal 19:06

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Donnington Doorstep is a community-based family centre delivering a range of universal and specialist services. It was set up in 1984 by local parents, who knew that caring for children can be hard. My mum was involved a little at the start, and I was one of the children that it was hard to care for (unruly, etc). Forty years on Donnington Doorstep is still a home from home drop-in for children, young people and their families as well as a hub for local community activity. It is based in a purpose-built centre in East Oxford and its activities focus on play, food, support and community development. You can read more here: https://www.donnington-doorstep.org.uk/about/about-us We wanted to hold a celebration for the centre not just in the University that now dominates Oxford (far more than it did in 1984). This celebration was held at St Peter's Collge Oxford, on Friday 21st June 2024. The recording is just of Danny Dorling's contribution.…

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Welcome to Oxford? Refugees, migrants, incomers who have made the city their home 1:41:45

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Who are the incomers who have made the city of Oxford, England their home? Social policy scholar Elizabeth Peretz, geographer Danny Dorling, historian Maurice East and activist Jabu Nala-Hartley lead a discussion about migrants' histories and realities in a Refugee Week event organised by the Coalition To Keep Campsfield Closed. The speakers explore the stories of those who have come to Oxford over the years, and how they've managed to settle and make the town and university the place it is today. Following their comments, a number of refugees and former refugees spoke. This is an audio-only recording of an event held on 17 June 2024. This event was originally scheduled to be held at Common Ground, but when it was not available, Somerville College at the University of Oxford very kindly made the Margaret Thatcher Centre lecture theatre available. The Coalition To Keep Campsfield Closed is campaigning to stop the reopening of a detention centre on the edge of Oxford, which at one time was Europe's largest camp for the concentration and incarceration of people seeking refuge and asylum. Find out more about this important campaign: https://keepcampsfieldclosed.uk/ Read more about Danny Dorling's books, events and work: https://www.dannydorling.org/…

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How did Britain become so divided? Danny Dorling on our shattering nation 1:11:48

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Why is the UK so unusual – and not at all in a good way? How did the Conservative Party end up having more in common with European political parties such as Germany]s far-right AfD than with other “conservative” parties on the continent – as far back as the prime ministership of David Cameron? How did a recent Scottish government policy that most people outside of Scotland are unaware of, manage to reverse one of the harshest measures imposed on families by the UK government? From miserly state pension benefits to shrinking children and soaring child poverty, and from dwindling state spending as a proportion of GDP to the outsized influence of billionaire-owned newspapers that as far back as the 1930s, a Tory prime minister described as “engines of propaganda”, British exceptionalism is taking a toll on all who live in it as the country becomes poorer and harsher. In this election year, are there any reasons to be hopeful? This is an audio-only recording of a talk by acclaimed geographer and inequalities expert Professor Danny Dorling of the University of Oxford at the Lewes Speakers Festival on 11 May 2024. His talk draws on his recent Verso book Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State.…

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Brexit is a failed project: a brighter future is possible 1:26:36

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Danny Dorling, Liz Webster, and Willow Fisher, speaking on "Brexit is a failed project: a brighter future is possible", a Public Meeting organised by Oxford for Europe, Wesley Memorial Church, Oxford, March 20th 2024. A summary for part of the first part is here: https://www.dannydorling.org/?p=9917 and full report which that part is based on is here: https://www.dannydorling.org/?page_id=9912 a report on the failed project.…

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"BRITISH CULTURE" by Danny Dorling, at the Sunday Papers Live, 17 March 2024 24:27

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13:10-13.35 - "BRITISH CULTURE" Danny Dorling at the Sunday Papers Live, March 17th 2024 (One Marylebone, 1 Marylebone Rd, London) Is there any hope? What do we do? Join Danny Dorling, professor in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, as he explores the options, and how Geography shows you a way out for London, England and the UK.…

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Failing neoliberalism: How Britain changed from a shining social and economic example to a nearly failed state 1:29:57

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A public talk given by Danny Dorling at the Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development, University of Groningen, House of Connections, Oude Ebbingestraat, Groningen, The Netherlands, 19 December 2023. Based on the book "Shattered Nation" and concerning recent events and more long term trends in the UK, the Netherlands, and elsehwhere. Introduced by Dimitris Ballas and Frans J. Sijtsma.…

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What should Labour do on housing - and would it be indulgent? 46:38

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Danny Dorling, speaking after John Broughton and Peter Apps, on the housing Policies of the British Labour Party, at the Labour Housing Group Conference: Tackling London's Housing Crisis, Camden London Borough Council, December 9th 2023

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Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State 1:03:14

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Danny Dorling asking how Britain became so divided. Recorded at Toppings book shop in Edinburgh on 7 December 2023. 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.…

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Islands: In Conversation with John Furlong – a talk about a book 56:38

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Islands: Danny Dorling in Conversation with John Furlong – a talk about a book, Department of Education, 15 Norham Gardens, University of Oxford, December 4th 2023. John Furlong, former Director of the University of Oxford Department of Education, discusses his recent memoir ‘Islands: In Search of Brave New Worlds’ with Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Human Geography. It’s 1969. John and his friend Mike are living and working in Manhattan, making money for their big trip. That summer, New York becomes the epicentre of the brave new world that is ‘Alternative America’ – drugs, meditation, the anti-war movement, gay liberation, civil rights, feminism. Although exciting, John eventually becomes disillusioned. He wants to experience somewhere more ‘real’. In the Caribbean, he and Mike discover the beauty and simplicity of island life before the advent of mass tourism. But they also have to confront the reality of a collapsing British Empire which lays bare the legacy of 400 years of colonialism and slavery – the poverty and corruption that was always there but that the Brits refused to see. Then on the tiny island of Carriacou, they meet Father Pat, a charismatic Marxist priest who asks John to join him in his struggle to create a more just society. But who was Father Pat and what did John learn from him? Only now, 50 years on, does John finally discover the priest’s identity and his role in Grenada’s socialist revolution of 1979 – that country’s ill-fated bid to build its own brave new world. johnfurlongauthor.co.uk…

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Falling life expectancy in the UK 49:56

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Falling life expectancy in the UK - a talk by Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University Centre for the Environment given at the Royal Society of Medicine in London at a meeting held on 'Recent advances in medicine and surgery on' Thursday 30 November 2023.…

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Tim Marshall and Danny Dorling: Worlds Apart – mapping inequality, Hay Festival 1:01:16

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Danny Dorling and Tim Marshall talk to Oliver Bullough WORLDS APART – MAPPING INEQUALITY Thursday 23 November 2023, 8pm Venue: Llwyfan Cymru – Wales Stage (Hay Castle) One of the UK’s leading geographers, Danny Dorling shows why we are growing further and further apart in his new book Shattered Nation . Looking at hunger, precarity, waste, exploitation and fear, Dorling looks at how Britain, once the leading economy in Europe, is now the most unequal and what we must do to save Britain from becoming a failed state. Dorling is Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford, and regularly advises the government and the Office for National Statistics. In Tim Marshall’s new book The Future of Geography , he tackles astropolitics, exploring how politics and geography are as important in the skies as on the ground, and what it all means for us on Earth. Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience from countries including Croatia, Bosnia, Israel, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He is the author of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics and The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World . Offering powerful insights and giving us a new perspective on our world (and beyond), the pair speak to author and journalist Oliver Bullough.…

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Healthy Lives in an Age of Insecurity 2:00:35

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Three talks and a discussion lead by Jabu Nala-Hartley, a Masters of Public Health student at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford City Councillor for Barton and Sandhills, recent Chair of the Oxford District Labour Party, and current chair of the Oxford Living Wage Campaign - involving Danny Dorling, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson; introduced by Sarah Howcutt and convened by the Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development, Oxford Brookes University, 11 November 2023.…

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The Left Behind and the Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State 1:14:44

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Keynote lecture given by Dany Dorling at the CREW research lab, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (USN), in Paris. Given on November 10th 2023 as part of a study day that focussed on the population and geographical locations that were left behind over recent decades in the UK. Considering the particular policies, addressing the concept, causes and consequences, along with the subsequent policy attempts to redress inequalities - all as viewed from the vantage point of France.…

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Brexit: a failed project in a failing state? 1:30:18

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Presentation by Danny Dorling and discussion with Luke Cooper and Zoe Williams: Brexit has failed to address any of the substantive challenges of the day, but it was not a ‘year zero’ for the many problems facing the United Kingdom and, in fact, reflected decades of public policy failure. That’s the argument of Oxford University professor Danny Dorling in his provocative new report, Brexit: a failed project in a failing state, published by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and Another Europe Is Possible. The full report is here: https://www.brexitspotlight.org/report-brexit-a-failed-project-in-a-failing-state/…

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How Do We Stop Britain Becoming a Failed State? 1:19:56

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Tom Clark, Samira Shackle, and Danny Dorling, discuss How Do We Stop Britain Becoming a Failed State? at Festival of the Future City, The Watershed, Bristol, on October 18th.

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Danny Dorling talks about A Shattered Nation at The Wanstead Tap, London, 4 October 2023 1:27:04

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Danny Dorling talks about his new book and begins with the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street which occurred on this day in 1936 - the last time the UK was as unequal as it was again in 2023. No slides, and an injection of some hope.

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The impact on future generations of inequality in the housing market 1:06:15

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Danny Dorling giving a Population Ageing seminar at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, November 4th 2021 on person and by zoom.

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Finntopia: What we can learn from the world’s happiest country 1:12:34

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Danny Dorling speaking at the Wanstead Tap Beer Hall, East London, July 21st 2021

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The British Housing Disaster 25:45

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A keynote speech given remotely by Danny Dorling at the Annual Conference of Asumisen rahoitus- ja kehittämiskeskus (ARA) , The Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland, January 21st 2021.

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Labour Housing Group in Conversation with Danny Dorling: Finntopia and how can Labour help? 59:58

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At this event, Danny will be talking about Finntopia – What we can learn from the world’s happiest country?, written jointly with Annika Koljonen (and Agenda Press). In 2018, 2019 and 2020, the World Happiness Report ranked Finland the world’s happiest country, both for its total population and for the immigrants living there. The UK was placed 19th (20th for immigrants). Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explore in the book what we might learn from Finnish success and what they might usefully learn from us.…

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Slowing Down: Has this Been the Worst Pandemic in Britain in Living Memory? 59:17

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Danny Dorling talking about the 2020 pandemic and historical analogues at the Also Festival, Warwickshire, 29th August 2020.

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The Geography of Slowdown: The End of The Great Acceleration- And Why That is Good For The Planet, The Economy, and Our Lives 1:08:58

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Keynote Address by Danny Dorling at the International e-Conference on Borderless Growth, Equality and Sustainable Development: The Pathway to Human Welfare, Isabella Thoburn College, India, 29 June 2020

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Brexit government tries to deal with pandemic 13:51

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Danny Dorling talking on how the Brexit government tried to deal with pandemic and what we know now about Covid-19, as a Contribution to a ‘why we must not return to normal’ panel discussion, organised by Counterfire, on-line, May 30th 2020. Best listened to after reading "Did COVID-19 infections decline before UK lockdown? " by Simon Wood at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.02090.pdf…

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The illusion of speed and growth in our society 56:51

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Danny Dorling, and Sofie Furu discussing the Book Slowdown and the illusion of speed and growth in our society, on-line talk, SoCentral - nordisk inkubator for samfunnsinnovasjon, Oslo, Norway, May 20th 2020

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Stepping back to focus on the longer term (talking about slowdown) 20:09

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Danny Dorling giving a short keynote at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference (on-line in a time of Covid19) on April 24th 2020.

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The Geography of Slowdown 1:11:42

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The Geography of Slowdown. Final conference talk given by Danny Dorling, Geographical Association Annual Conference (on-line), April 18th 2020

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UK Health Crisis: Early 2020 update 26:11

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Peak inequality and mortality in the UK: 2015-2020 1:40:58

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