Whatever Happened to Equality?
Speaker Interviews
Videos from an event held at Newcastle University,
10th November 2012
Sponsored by
Economic and Social Research Council
and hosted by
Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal
Participants taking part in our film-making workshop interviewed
speakers at a day of active debate and documentary-making
held as part of
ESRC Festival of Social Science. Filming
facilitated by Jackie Scollen.
The notions of equality and equity are widely used and yet people's
understanding of their meaning differs hugely.
This can make it difficult to know what people are talking about
when they argue for greater equality - is it equal rights? Equal access to
education? Equal opportunity? Equal pay? All of the above?
This session will interrogate these differences and ask in what contexts is
a more equal society a better one? Speakers
Dr Vikki Boliver of Durham University
and
Christopher Snowdon, author of
The Spirit Level Delusion
discussed "Equality, Equity and the dispossessed".
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Vikki Boliver on Equality, Equity and the dispossessed
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Christopher Snowdon on Equality, Equity and the dispossessed
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Has difference replaced equality as the central theme of
feminist and anti-racist politics over the last three decades?
Dr Davina Cooper, author of
Challenging Diversity: Rethinking Equality and the Value of Difference;
Max Wind-Cowie, Head of the Progressive
Conservatism Project at
Demos
and
Dolan Cummings, Associate Fellow at
Institute of Ideas reflected on what has
been lost and gained by this shift of emphasis in
Equality versus Difference.
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Davina Cooper on Equality versus Difference
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Max Wind-Cowie on Equality versus Difference
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Dolan Cummings on Equality versus Difference
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