Laurie Taylor discusses US sociologist Dr Lee Miller's paper, The Hazards of Neo-Liberalism: delayed electricity connections, post Hurricane Ike.
He will also be talking about white, middle class children in urban schools with Diane Ray, a University of Cambridge sociologist.
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