Fair play: A Daniel Dorling reader on social justice

This accessible reader brings together a selection of highly influential writings by academic and writer Daniel Dorling which looks at inequality and social justice, what they are and why they matter. Encompassing an extensive range of print and online media - including newspaper articles, previously unpublished work and several key academic publications - 'Fair Play' provides a wealth of evidence that Britain is becoming more politically, socially and economically divided whilst coming together in terms of educational outcomes, reduced segregation by ethnicity and a growing sense that the country is currently travelling in the wrong direction. Cuts to benefits for many of the poorest people in Britain during 2011 coupled with falling average incomes in real terms, but simultaneous rapid rises in income and wealth of many at the top of British society, have lead to a great renewal of a sense of unfairness in Britain. This book charts the rise in that sense and many of the solutions that are suggested to ensure fair play.

Table of Contents:
Preface ~ Mary O'Hara; Introduction; Context; Inequality and poverty; Injustice and ideology; Race and Identity; Education and hierarchy; Elitism and wealth; Mobility and employment; Bricks and mortar; Wellbeing and misery; Advocacy and action.

About the Author :
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 RoadPeace and is current president of the Society of Cartographers.

Review :
"A store of brain stimulants to dip into. Dorling turns his serious research into engaging prose, consistently questioning the ways of our world." Ludi Simpson, University of Manchester 'In this book Daniel Dorling has brought together fifty-two of his academic papers, newspaper articles, magazine articles, and unpublished essays, to create a nicely structured and really quite devastating critique of our unequal society: devastating because so carefully researched.' - Citizen's Income Newsletter "Danny Dorling consistently works to subject the myths that sustain inequality and injustice to the test of patient inquiry. In the political struggles that lie ahead of us we need a social science that does not reproduce the assumptions of the privileged and the powerful. We need, in other words, to read Danny Dorling." Dan Hind, author of The Return of the Public and The Threat to Reason "Professor Dorling, geographer extraordinaire, brings the debate on inequalities and social immobility to life: if his powerful new book leaves you stimulated, provoked, angry, then Danny Dorling has succeeded again." Lord Richard Best, independent member of the House of Lords