Podcasts about halford mackinder professor

Today's guest is Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, here at the University of Oxford. Danny has published (with colleagues) more than a dozen books on social inequalities in Britain and several hundred journal papers. His work concerns issues of housing, health, employment, education and poverty.  Danny is currently attached to St Peter's College in Oxford. Prepare for some fascinating insights.  Link: https://www.dannydorling.org/

Today, we're reaching back "into the vault" to our Spatial Analytics and Data (SAD) interview series to bring you one of our past guests: Danny Dorling, the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford. In this conversation, we'll talk about his life, times, and career, and also learn a little bit about who he would invite to a SAD dinner party! And: if you're curious about the SAD interviews, check out our Spatial Analytics and Data YouTube Channel (link) for the full back catalogue. And, if you'd like: let us know your story at thegladpodcast@gmail.com We'd be glad to hear from you!    Note: we recorded this interview at the height of a global pandemic from home, while we usually record GLaD in the studio. So, we're sorry for any issues with the audio quality! We hope we've gotten better since this... and we hope you enjoy! 

Guest: Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and Co Author of Finntopia: What can we learn from the world's happiest country? He joins John to consider the question, what might we learn from Finnish success and what they might usefully learn from us?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the show, the second of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the social, political, and economic consequences of neoliberalism and globalization, exploring alienation, the rise of authoritarianism, the significance of China in the world economy, the geopolitics of capitalism, carbon dioxide emissions and climate change, and our collective response. In our previous show, we discussed central themes raised in ‘The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles' by Professor David Harvey, who is distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Library Journal calls Professor Harvey “one of the most influential geographers of the later 20th century.” Professor Harvey earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. You can hear him on David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, a bimonthly podcast that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens. He also gives a series of lectures called Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey on his website DavidHarvey.org, which – if you have not read volumes I and II of Marx's Capital – is an invaluable way to match your reading with insightful commentary on this classic work.

On the show, the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the reconfiguration of global capitalism, the contradictions of neoliberalism, the financialization of power, the commodification of spectacle, rate versus mass of surplus value, and other issues fundamental to economic theory. David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies. Library Journal calls Professor Harvey “one of the most influential geographers of the later 20th century.” Professor Harvey earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. He is a prolific author, with his books including ‘Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution'; ‘A Companion to Marx's Capital'; ‘Social Justice and the City'; and his classic, ‘A Brief History of Neoliberalism'. You can hear him on David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, a bimonthly podcast that looks at capitalism through a Marxist lens. He also gives a series of lectures called Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey on his website DavidHarvey.org, which – if you have not read volumes I and II of Marx's Capital – is an invaluable way to match your reading with insightful commentary on this classic work. His latest book is ‘The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles'.

Danny Dorling, author of the book “Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration—and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives” and the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, talks with us about geography as a means to understand culture; how and why, despite our sped-up modern lives, the world has been in a global slowdown since the late 1960s; and the ways in which this slowdown illuminates women’s aptitude for leadership.

For the final episode of the series we where delighted to be joined by Professor Danny Dorling, the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford.Danny has written several books that focus on the issue of inequality, including All that is Solid that focuses on how housing impacts inequality. We discussed this plus much else including the impact of the pandemic, examples of successful housing policy from Finland as well as Massive Attack. It's a honest and thought provoking interview and obviously the views are that of Danny and not that of TfL. You can read All that is Solid at https://southwarknotes.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/danny-dorling-all-that-is-solid-the-great-housing-disaster.pdf (the section we discuss is on page 973) and Danny's new book is called “Finntopia” and will be out in September.

Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford. He appears regularly on TV and radio, and writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and other papers. He advises 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An evening with special guest speakers on the subject of Brexit. Professor Andrew Oswald Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at Warwick University and Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford University discuss the impact of Brexit and the implications it will have on the UK.

An evening with special guest speakers on the subject of Brexit. Professor Andrew Oswald Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at Warwick University and Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford University discuss the impact of Brexit and the implications it will have on the UK.

Who should and who shouldn't come up to Oxford as an Undergraduate Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter's College. Previously he was a Professor of Geography at the University of Sheffield, and has worked in Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds and New Zealand. He is also a member of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster. Danny's work concerns issues of inequality and injustice, wealth and poverty, housing, health, employment, and education. Much of Danny's work is available at www.dannydorling.org via open access. His most recent books include Geography: Ideas in Profile; A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier; People and Places: A 21st Century Atlas of the UK; Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists; Inequality and the 1%, and All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster.

Happiness - Should the government promote it? Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford, talks to Laurie Taylor about the necessity to inspire a better politics with new measures of what matters most to us. These would include the avoidance of misery, the gaining of long term life satisfaction, the feeling of fulfilment, of worth, of kindness, of usefulness and love. Politicians, he contends, should promote a collective good which incorporates these priorities. They're joined by Paul Ormerod, economist and Visiting Professor at UCL Centre for Decision Making Uncertainty, who contends that policymakers should not claim that they can increase happiness through public policy decisions. Also, do dominant ideals of 'good' parenting contain a class bias? Esther Dermott. Professor of Sociology, argues that the activities of the most educationally advantaged parents are accepted as the benchmark against whom others are assessed. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford University and, according to Simon Jenkins 'geographer royal by appointment to the left' was at the shop to present a new edition of his *Inequality and the 1%* (Verso), in conversation with Dawn Foster. 'Dorling asks questions about inequality that fast become unswervable,' wrote Zoë Williams in the *Guardian*. 'Can we afford the superrich? Can society prosper? Can we realize our potential?' See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Danny Dorling delivers his inaugural lecture as Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography on 'Geography, Inequality and Oxford'. Danny Dorling's talk outlines how geography is increasingly important for revealing inequalities - over the last third of a century, inequalities in health and wealth have been rising and rising fastest in the last 5 years. The last period in recent history when we enjoyed relative equality was back in the 1970s - the time when Danny himself was living and schooled in Oxford.

A public lecture at the University of Notre Dame by Professor Gordon Clark, the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford on November 1, 2007.

A public lecture at the University of Notre Dame by Professor Gordon Clark, the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford on November 1, 2007.