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In today’s episode I talk to journalist and author David Goodhart. He first became famous, or infamous to some, when he wrote an essay in 2004 – “Too diverse?” –about how diversity can come in conflict with solidarity within a nation state. It sparked a huge debate in Britain, which also reverberated here in Sweden. Since then he’s been a public intellectual with an almost absolute pitch for noticing changes in society and in people’s attitudes.
His latest book – Head, Hand, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century (Allen Lane 2020) – concerns the way in which cognitive labour has received most of the economic rewards during the last decades, and also most of the status. People who work in cognitive-heavy sectors have shaped society in their image. The huge expansion of higher education is a case in point. This has laid too much of an emphasis on academic achievement, and too little on other areas which are equally if not more important. The hand and the heart are obviously metaphors, but they correspond to sectors of the job market that tends to be looked down on, or seen as out-dated. It’s the people that might not have gone to university, which didn’t mean that much when only 15 percent did so. But when 50 percent go to higher education it creates a completely different dynamic, where they themselves get blamed for not going. It’s not a classless society, but a society where class has morphed into something different.
It’s a followup on his book – The road to somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics (Hurst 2017) – which had more to do with how different people relate to openness, borders and their identity. It got published right after both the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, and provided a much needed analysis of how that came to be. Many have by now heard the dichotomy anywhere versus somewheres, which David Goodhart came up with in that book. Basically the anywheres tend to be focused on the head, and the somewheres tend to work more with the hand and the heart. The anywheres are less rooted in place, and tend to have more achieved identities which has to do with merit, education, profession etcetera. Somewheres tend to have more ascribed identities, which are beyond the individuals control, such as nationality, locality, sex.
We talk about this in the podcast, and also his forthcoming book which will be the third installment of this trilogy. The preliminary title is Who cares? and will take off where Head, hand, heart left the reader. The focus is on the care sector, family life and why we need to rebalance our aging societies towards the heart.
I highly recommend reading David Goodharts books, if you haven’t already. He’s been an influence on my thinking for a long time. And I hope you find the interview as interesting as I did.
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Jesper Lindgren har ett trevligt samtal med oss om allt mellan himmel och jord.
Vad är bakgrunden till Carr Jam -21, hur gick med plattan och är det sant att det kommer en ny Carr Jam -21 skiva?
Vad gör Jesper Lindgren med resten av sin tid - glamrock och öl ?
Gäst: Jesper Lindgren
Detta har vi pratat om:
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Jesper Lindgren har ett trevligt samtal med oss om allt mellan himmel och jord. Vad är bakgrunden till Carr Jam -21, hur gick med plattan och är det sant att det kommer en ny Carr Jam -21 skiva? Vad gör Jesper Lindgren med resten av sin tid - glamrock och öl ? Gäst: Jesper Lindgren Detta har vi pratat om: Alice Cooper, Michael B Tretow, Scotch, Carr Jam-21, Jesper Lindgren, Velvet Insane, Bonafide, Dregen, Gustav Kronfelt, Martin Ekelund, Ryan Roxie, Martin Ekelund Jolle Atalagic från Electric Boys, Snowblind, Alex Bergdahl, Eyes of Love, Loretta Caravallo, Eric Carr, Eric Singer, Strutter '78, Double Platinum, Sex Pistols, AC/DC, Vinnie Vincent, Unmasked, Creatures of the Night, The Sweet, Love Gun, Peter Criss soloalbum, Alive II, Dressed to Kill, New York Dolls, Slade, ölen Riff, tuggummit Riff, Asta Kask, Nyckelbryggerier i Älvsbyn, KISS Army Sweden, Tidningen Destroyer, serietidningar, Bruce Kulick, Licks, Johnny Thunder, Keith Richards, Monsters, Carnival of Souls, Andreas Kleerup, Mats Leven, Martin Sweet, Gene Simmons, Tomorrow, Mainline, Warmachine, Rock and All Hell, Psycho Circus, Heart of Chrome, Unholy, The Elder, Dynasty, 2.000 Man, Brendon Snyder, Yngwie Malmsteen, Hässelby, Peter Criss biografi, Paul Stanley biografi, Gene Simmons biography, Chris Lendts "Kiss and Sell", Kiss på Stadion 2010, Say Yeah, Warren Zevon, Cat Stevens, Dr Hook, Rod Stewart, Black Metal, Mayhem, Into the Fire, Filippa Meissner, Ukraina, Skivsnack, Sha Boom, Sweet Andy Scott - Krugerkrands, Gary Glitter-gitarrer, Muds gitarr sound, Riff Raff
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The government says it wants to improve the rules for non-EU PhD students and researchers' residence permits. We ask the new Minister for Education, Mats Persson, what this means in practice. We also hear PhD-student "Neha" who is concerned the changes don't come soon enough.
Also in the programme: Nine months after they were forced to flee their country, we check in on how some Ukrainian families to see how they are getting on. We'll have a look at the Centre Party's leadership contest, and get wafts of gingerbread from an annual gingerbread house competition.Plus: the most streamed song in Sweden in the past year. Presenter & Producer: Ulla Engberg -
A round-up of the main headlines in Sweden on November 24th, 2022. You can hear more reports on our homepage www.radiosweden.se, or in our app Sveriges Radio Play.
Presenter: Simon LinterProducer: Kris Boswell - Visa fler
