https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5 GLOBAL INEQUALITY HIVE en-us 2017-08-24 04:10:37 UTC 2025-05-17 13:29:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182502432 some live in mansions and high rises/condominiums, others live in huts and slums. In London it was the reverse! The recent fire in a high rise in the wealthiest district in Europe, was a fire of the poor and the displaced, who live in the ugly ill built skyscrapers next door to the very rich living in large low-scale apartments or four story historic homes. ]]> 2017-08-24 05:41:43 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182502432 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182502467 These baskets bring another way of thinking about the scales of justice that are the icon for this topic (see far top right hand corner of the padlet page!). It is not laws alone that make for justice but the ways in which basic securities and rights are distributed. The baskets make me think of rice, bananas, food and not only money. What do we need apart from laws to make a 'just' society]]> 2017-08-24 05:42:12 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182502467 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182502640  This makes me think of what the connection might be between inequality and conflict or peace and equality! Is the one reliant on the other? superficially I would say yes, but then I think and wonder: what about the seeming inequality in feudal societies or empires such as those in ancient China or India? And today the richest country has the highest wealth inequality - the USA - but it is 'at peace' at least within its own borders. 

The other image - malt whisky - made me think of the strange relationship between dependency on some kind of 'drug' (including alcohol)  and certain kinds of marginalization or exclusion, (indigenous, intergenerational unemployment and poverty; mental health) on the one hand, and sections of the affluent and drug dependency on the other (celebrities, parties, etc. )]]> 2017-08-24 05:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182502640 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182503742 the strong always seem to dominate the weak (like the big trees over the small trees). Socially this gives a big problem between women and men - domestic violence, gender inequality. ]]> 2017-08-24 06:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182503742 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182503870 or does it depend on what kind of development and what kind of well-being? ]]> 2017-08-24 06:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182503870 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504104  The cities thrive while the rural hinterlands get poorer and less in terms of capital, goods, services and infrastructure. Where are the opportunities and choices for the women and men of the countryside? ]]> 2017-08-24 06:11:04 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504104 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504281 A simple looking picture but full of complexity. the figures appear relatively ungendered, unclassed and could be from any ethnic group or community but ... the words break up the apparent unity: the human beings are not 'the same' in terms of our fertile question or global inequality - whose voice is heard? who is discriminated against? is diversity how we organise human societies and communities? does it need to be? Put this 'map' with the mind map Equal Opportunity or any of our other drawings and we begin to see new questions, new perspectives, new ways of thinking - or thinking differently ....]]> 2017-08-24 06:12:42 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504281 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504468 This started with the word 'fair' and the image of a 'pie' cut into equal slices then developed into the image of a country (Australia?) where everyone was more or less the same/equal/fair and then a dragon appeared ...... China? ]]> 2017-08-24 06:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504468 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504538 Do guns guarantee peace and security or the opposite? Is access to housing a basic human right? In Australia does that mean that everyone should have the opportunity to purchase their own home? Clean water is a basic right all should enjoy. Does the gun help achieve these rights and opportunities???  or Peace???? Is it necessary to be strong to take care of the weak?  ]]> 2017-08-24 06:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182504538 spel21c https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182511320 This map starts to make some complex links between equality, opportunity, rights, success, participation, distribution, law and security. In this sense, it is a summary of many of the other maps that take aspects of these and zoom in. this map zooms out and starts to make some holistic connections. Which comes first???]]> 2017-08-24 07:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/spel21c/wsnlyd58xjn5/wish/182511320