How has Danny Dorling contributed to our understanding of the politics of austerity?
This specific chapter of the book ‘The violence of austerity’ presents the reader the powerful impact austerity has had in the recent years for the UK. Dorling argued that the UK had suffered from a large rise in overall mortality rates since the 1830s, where in 2013 there was a 29 percent increase in deaths in comparison to the 15.5 percent of the previous winter. Many politicians tried to argue that the increase in the mortality rates were solely due to influenza and the very cold winters of 2012/13 alone. But, his counterargument in his work was that these claims did not correspond to ONS statistics of a sudden 5 percent increase in unexpected deaths, as …show more content…
For example, although he beautifully dissected the implications of austerity he did have the potential to introduce some alternatives in the funding of the social services towards care plans for the elderly and disabled. He states that those elderly people are the last of all those people who voted for labour during their landslide election victory of 1945, and this is the generation who experienced post war austerity and are now being killed by the post-crash austerity, (cooper, 2017 p.48) and it was that very statement which emphasised and rounded up his whole argument to his audience. It is also important to work out who even is his audience. For someone who is seeking to gain extra knowledge on the politics of austerity and its impact on the social aspect of things, the issue that he addresses seems to be very convincing. I believe that he succeeded in setting up the seed which will lead anyone carrying out further research in ways of tackling post-war austerity by finding alternative funding methods to subsidise the health sector which is clearly being under invested in. Thus, our understanding of the politics of austerity lies upon the opportunity cost of when a choice of decision is made by governments and perhaps cuts to public investment may have not worked out as well as initially
This specific chapter of the book ‘The violence of austerity’ presents the reader the powerful impact austerity has had in the recent years for the UK. Dorling argued that the UK had suffered from a large rise in overall mortality rates since the 1830s, where in 2013 there was a 29 percent increase in deaths in comparison to the 15.5 percent of the previous winter. Many politicians tried to argue that the increase in the mortality rates were solely due to influenza and the very cold winters of 2012/13 alone. But, his counterargument in his work was that these claims did not correspond to ONS statistics of a sudden 5 percent increase in unexpected deaths, as …show more content…
For example, although he beautifully dissected the implications of austerity he did have the potential to introduce some alternatives in the funding of the social services towards care plans for the elderly and disabled. He states that those elderly people are the last of all those people who voted for labour during their landslide election victory of 1945, and this is the generation who experienced post war austerity and are now being killed by the post-crash austerity, (cooper, 2017 p.48) and it was that very statement which emphasised and rounded up his whole argument to his audience. It is also important to work out who even is his audience. For someone who is seeking to gain extra knowledge on the politics of austerity and its impact on the social aspect of things, the issue that he addresses seems to be very convincing. I believe that he succeeded in setting up the seed which will lead anyone carrying out further research in ways of tackling post-war austerity by finding alternative funding methods to subsidise the health sector which is clearly being under invested in. Thus, our understanding of the politics of austerity lies upon the opportunity cost of when a choice of decision is made by governments and perhaps cuts to public investment may have not worked out as well as initially