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Shattered nation: inequality and the geography of a failing state

Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment and the Cañada-Blanch Centre

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speaker

Professor Danny Dorling

Professor Danny Dorling

Chair

Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Professor Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

In this event to mark the launch of his new book Shattered Nation, geographer Danny Dorling will explain why we are growing further and further apart, exposing a new geography of inequality.

Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. 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. 

Meet our speaker and chair

Danny Dorling (@dannydorling) is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. He appears regularly on TV and radio and writes for the Guardian, New Statesman, and other papers. He advises the government and the Office for National Statistics. Among his books are All That is Solid; Population 10 billion; So You Think You Know About Britain?; and Injustice.

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose is a Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics and Director of the Cañada-Blanch Centre.

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The Department of Geography and Environment (@LSEGeography) is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

The Cañada-Blanch Centre at LSE is the vehicle to achieve the objective of the Fundación Cañada Blanch: developing and reinforcing the links between the United Kingdom and Spain. This is done by means of fostering cutting-edge knowledge generation and joint research projects between researchers in the United Kingdom, and at LSE in particular, on the one hand, and Spain, on the other.

Explore LSE’s dedicated hub Understanding the UK Economy, showcasing research and expertise on the state of the UK economy, its global context and its future.

You can read a blog article by Professor Danny Dorling entitled Danny Dorling: British society is heading for “levelling down” on the LSE British Politics and Policy blog.

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