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Virtual Conference Report: Day Four (23 Oct, 2009)
by paulabowles The first week of the conference has come to an end, and the final day has included two exciting papers, as well as a publishing workshop. The first paper entitled ‘Full Disclosure of...
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iPad controversy highlights growing inequality in China
by Michelle Brooks Despite a plethora of reasons why I am not holding a new Apple iPad (mostly financial), recent news of a spate of suicides at the Foxconn plant near Shenzhen in China where...
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Tough but fair?: The Emergency Budget
Sarah Mills George Osborne announced his “tough but fair” Emergency Budget yesterday, aiming to tackle Britain’s record debt. The coalitions first budget included an increase in VAT, personal income...
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Unsustainable extremes? Geographies of wealth
by Jayne Glass In April 2010 the Sunday Times newspaper reported that the wealth of the richest 1000 people in the UK had risen by an average of £77 million each in just one year, to now stand at...
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The Spirit Level: UK inequalities and a new social Darwinism
On 26 July 2010 The Guardian newspaper ran an editorial on the recent discussion around the book The Spirit Level: why more equal societies almost always do better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate...
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Human Development and Inequalities
by Magali Bonne-Moreau What do Ethiopia and Cambodia have in common? Aside from their complicated political histories, these two countries have made great improvements in education and public health...
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Revolting against inequality and discrimination
Burnt out car, 6th November 2005. Picture taken during the French suburb riots by François Schnell. By Rosa Mas Giralt The Guardian newspaper is currently publishing a series of reports looking at the...
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The Geographical Journal Content Alert: Volume 178, Issue 1 (March 2012)
The latest issue of The Geographical Journal is available on Wiley Online Library. Click past the break to view the full table of contents. Contributions Editorial (page 2) Klaus Dodds Article first...
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Promoting Feminism, Opposing Inequality
By Jessica Hope, University of Manchester Image credit: Jessica Hope Last week UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson launched the HeForShe campaign, a solidarity movement for gender equality that...
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Austerity will increase the North South health divide
By Clare Bambra and Kayleigh Garthwaite, Durham University We were told by the Coalition government that we are “all in it together” and that recession, austerity, cuts to welfare and the privatisation...
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Housing Refugees: Prejudice and the Potentials of Encounter
By Julian Shaw (King’s College London) Syrian Refugees at Keleti Railway Station in Budapest, Hungary Photo: Mstyslav Chernov/Wikimedia Commons This summer the British media opened its eyes, cleared...
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Cultivating the land of the concrete jungle: environmental and social...
By Amita Bhakta, Loughborough University There are many different aspects of daily life that symbolise wider environmental challenges in the world, some as close to us as the food we eat. Recent...
View ArticleMaybe we should all be preparing for the zombie apocalypse
by Kezia Barker, Birkbeck, University of London, UK The zombie apocalypse has become a kitsch and playful marketing tool that channels our contemporary atmosphere of fearfulness and sense of...
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Cities are at centre of coronavirus pandemic – understanding this can help...
David Simon, Royal Holloway From its origin in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 has spread to become a predominantly urban-focused pandemic. Although much data on the pandemic is still unavailable, it is clear...
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Life beyond Covid-19 in a Divided Kingdom
By Ray Hudson, Durham University, UK We find ourselves living in an unfamiliar and uncertain world; not one in which all that is solid melts into air, but rather one in which the air that we breathe...
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Thinking about Black death and (im)mobilities during the Covid-19 pandemic
By Lioba Hirsch, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Racism is killing us. Sometimes slowly, sometimes fast. Right now, the coronavirus reveals the deep-seated inequalities that...
View ArticleCOVID is a Feminist Issue
By The Gender and Feminist Geographies Research Group of the RGS-IBG We have been told repeatedly that this virus is a great leveller, that it does not discriminate; but it does. The death rate from...
View Article“GET SMALLER?” Micro-Living in the age of Covid-19
By Ella Harris, Birkbeck, University of London & Mel Nowicki, Oxford Brookes University Over the past decade in the West, an intensifying housing crisis brought about by the 2008 financial crash...
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Northern lockdowns shine a light on Britain’s landscape of inequality
By Laurie Parsons (Royal Holloway) This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. After a brief return, freedom of movement has been...
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The sensor desert quandary: What does it mean (not) to count in the smart city?
By Cait Robinson, University of Liverpool, and Rachel S. Franklin, Newcastle University As COVID-19 has brought the need for improved digital infrastructures into sharp focus, smart cities have been...
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