London and the English desert – the geography of cultural capital in the UK
People in the UK and especially the English have become culturally attuned to seeing and experiencing a geography of extreme inequality as normal. Occasionally, new statistics are produced that show these gross inequalities in a new light and which then cause some shock. This was the case in 2013 wh...
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| description | People in the UK and especially the English have become culturally attuned to seeing and experiencing a geography of extreme inequality as normal. Occasionally, new statistics are produced that show these gross inequalities in a new light and which then cause some shock. This was the case in 2013 when a report on arts funding highlighted just how concentrated such funding was within London, but we should not be so shocked by such a finding. It turns out that what that report really showed was a continuation of a now long established trend in which London gains more and more of the cake, a slight thicker slice each year as compared to the year before. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:eb700e56-4dd2-4743-bc4d-c2f4e1623b3e2022-03-27T11:09:31ZLondon and the English desert – the geography of cultural capital in the UKJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:eb700e56-4dd2-4743-bc4d-c2f4e1623b3eSymplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2016Dorling, DHennig, BPeople in the UK and especially the English have become culturally attuned to seeing and experiencing a geography of extreme inequality as normal. Occasionally, new statistics are produced that show these gross inequalities in a new light and which then cause some shock. This was the case in 2013 when a report on arts funding highlighted just how concentrated such funding was within London, but we should not be so shocked by such a finding. It turns out that what that report really showed was a continuation of a now long established trend in which London gains more and more of the cake, a slight thicker slice each year as compared to the year before. |
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