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FAcSS FRSE Coaching/mentoring/away day and workshop facilitation. Research interests include Islamophobia, intersectionality, migration, youth, gender, race. Leverhulme Major Research Fellow. Editor - The Geographical Journal. Views are my own. .. more

Peter Hopkins is a British academic and social geographer. He is currently professor of social geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University.

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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 14d

@peterhopkins.bsky.social discusses how the Far-right protests against #AsylumHotels in the UK have escalated into mass mobilisations, with #Migration dominating political debate while #Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism remain sidelined and silenced: buff.ly/J3hLPr9

Asylum hotel protests in the UK: Why Islamophobia is being ignored - Transforming Society

Peter Hopkins, author of 'Everyday Islamophobia', discusses the Far-right protests against asylum hotels in the UK have escalated into mass mobilisations, with migration dominating political debate…

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · 15d

📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡

September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony.

Take a look here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles showing the Special Section 'Legacies of Austerity', with the names of papers in the issue. The names of the papers and authors are as follows:

1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall
2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al.
3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock
4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou
5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali
6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al.
7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull
8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) 'The rise of education-featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state–capital nexus' by Shenjing He
2) 'Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China' by Rong Cai, Lirong Hu & Shenjing He
3) 'The market formation of private sector, purpose built student accommodation in Sheffield 2000–2019' by Carl Lee
4) 'Evaporation losses from residential swimming pools and water features under climate variability and change' by Alicia Cumberland & Robert Wilby
5) 'Forecasting urban shifts post-earthquake: LULC change analysis in Elazığ, Turkey using ANN and Markov models' by Fatih Sunbul, Enes Karadeniz, Mustafa Taner Sengun & Muhammed Kocaoglu
6) 'Care-ful encounters: A case for empathetic youthful encounters with coastal environments' by Mark Holton
7) 'How do you like your rivers? Portraying public perception and preference for urban rivers in China via a combined visual and textual analysis' by Yixin Cao, Wendy Yan Chen & Karl Matthias Wantzen
8) 'Understanding place-to-place interactions using flow patterns derived from in-app mobile phone location data' by Mikaella Mavrogeni, Justin van Dijk & Paul Longley
9) 'Gender difference in space–time fixity from household structure in urban China: A case study of Beijing' by Hongbo Chai, Patrick Witte, Stan Geertman & Dick Ettema

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with commentaries and RGS-IBG Regulars, with the names of papers in the issue.

1) 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis
2) 'From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures' by Sarah Klosterkamp & Alex Jeffrey
3) 'Everyone's talking about climate change actions, but can we learn from Wales’ approach?' by Lynda Yorke, Athanasios Dimitriou, Sonya Hanna, Corinna Patterson, Sara Parry & Georgina Smith
4) 'Presidential address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2025' by Dame Jane Francis
5) 'Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2025' by Jane Francis, Murray Gray, Børge Ousland, Gillian Rose, Susan Smith & Dariusz Wójcik

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Kim McGuinness @kimmcguinness.bsky.social · 16d

If his group comes here to launch a new political party on Saturday, we make clear we see them for what they are. We won’t be fooled by Tommy Robinson. He simply does not belong here. (4/4)

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Kim McGuinness @kimmcguinness.bsky.social · 16d

They are our friends, our neighbours, people who we play or watch football with and have a laugh with at work or on a night out, people who have built up businesses, employing others and who work hard and contribute a great deal. (3/4)

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Kim McGuinness @kimmcguinness.bsky.social · 16d

I look around our region and see a North East that is proud and welcoming. This is a place where families have come from all over the world to work in our hospitals and care homes. (2/4)

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Kim McGuinness @kimmcguinness.bsky.social · 16d

Tommy Robinson's brand of hate and division offers the people of the North East nothing. He won't create jobs, he won't do anything to reduce your energy bills, he won't make your local transport better.

All he offers is hate, and too often violence. There is no place for that in this region.(1/4)

Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 17d

New piece @brisunipress.bsky.social about Islamophobia being ignored in the context of the debate about asylum hotels

www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/09/22/a...

Asylum hotel protests in the UK: Why Islamophobia is being ignored - Transforming Society

Peter Hopkins, author of 'Everyday Islamophobia', discusses the Far-right protests against asylum hotels in the UK have escalated into mass mobilisations, with migration dominating political debate wh...

www.transformingsociety.co.uk

Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d

NEW ANIMATION!
Here is a short new animation that explain a little more about what is meant by 'everyday Islamophobia'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EavZ...

Everyday Islamophobia

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d

A new book out today @brisunipress.bsky.social. You can order your copy here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/everyday-isl...

Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

And here is a piece by that my colleague Heather Smith and I wrote about our individual and joint work to tackle racism in schools:

from.ncl.ac.uk/how-should-w...

How should we tackle racism in schools?

Professor Peter Hopkins and Professor Heather Smith reflect on their work about how to tackle racism in schools & how to promote a culture of anti-racism.

Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

And here is an animation about hate crimes in the UK that provides some examples of the different forms this can take and where you can look to for support:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbNC...

Hate crimes in the UK

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

And here's a written piece that explains some of this further:

from.ncl.ac.uk/how-do-we-cr...?

How do we create environments where people can do their best thinking?

In a distracted world, how can we make time to think? Professor Peter Hopkins reflects on work at Newcastle University to create space for deeper thinking.

Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

How do we create environments where people can do their very best thinking, for themselves? Here is a short animation that explains how this can be achieved using Nancy Kline's idea of creating 'thinking environments':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Wg...

Generating 'Thinking Environments'

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

What are some of the ways that racism can be addressed at school? Based on collaborative work with secondary school students, here is an animation that shares their ideas about how to tackle racism:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZp...

10 ways to tackle racism at school

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

What is Islamophobia and how does it operate? Here is a short animation that addresses this question:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pFJ...

What is Islamophobia?

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

What is anti-racism and what does it mean to be anti-racist? Here is a short animation that addresses these questions:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExIx...

What is Anti-Racism?

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins

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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 25d

What is intersectionality? Here is a useful animation to help explain what it is all about:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1is...

What is intersectionality?

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · Aug 26

Studying Geography at university? 🌎📚💻

Check out this article for some top tips from our Geography colleagues (Simon Tate and @peterhopkins.bsky.social) on how to succeed in the first year of your new degree >> bit.ly/4lRcR4D

Studying Geography at university: how to succeed in the first year of your new degree

By Simon Tate, Newcastle University, Peter Hopkins, Newcastle University As the exam results are published and university places confirmed, thoughts soon turn to starting your Geography degree and …

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgsibg.bsky.social · Aug 19

Our Annual Conference kicks off on 26 August! We can’t wait to welcome over 2,000 of our colleagues from around the world to discuss the geographies of creativity. 🌍

Make sure you’ve checked our mobile guide so you can get the most out of this year’s programme: http://bit.ly/4fDqKSk📲

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · Jul 30

How should we tackle racism in schools?

Prof. @peterhopkins.bsky.social and Prof. Heather Smith, share their crucial work on how to tackle racism in schools and how to promote a culture of anti-racism. Read the blog here >> bit.ly/3UCsmC8

How should we tackle racism in schools?

Professor Peter Hopkins and Professor Heather Smith reflect on their work about how to tackle racism in schools & how to promote a culture of anti-racism.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 30

📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

This issue features papers on topics including drones, fintech, and e-waste.

The GJ publishes papers on issues of public interest - get in touch with submission ideas at [email protected].

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959... #geosky

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue.
1) Policy interactions at a multiscale geographical space for developing the green economy: Evidence from the international diffusion of environmental goods
Jingxuan Gui, Xiyan Mao, Peiyu Wang
2) Everyday understandings of drone incidents and misuse in the Mass Observation Archive
Anna Jackman
3) Comprehending the interaction between urban function and morphology at traffic analysis zones scale: The case study from Hangzhou
Wencang Shen, Qiyu Hu, Zhengfeng Zhang, Lu Niu
4) How different emotions emerge in the context of the energy crisis: A contribution to emotional energy geographies
Maria Budnik, Katrin Grossmann, Celine Hess, Tine Wemheuer
5) ‘You could start a new country, but you would need to discover new land’: Exploring understandings of statehood with primary school pupils in England
Liam Saddington, Fiona McConnell
6) Fin or tech? The role of financial and technological capabilities in global fintech development
Xinchen Luan, Wenwan Jin, Shengjun Zhu, Bofei Yang
7) ‘…and the evidence was irrefutable’: The politics of evidence in the World Commission on Dams
Christopher Schulz, William M. Adams
8) Labour turnover and employment dynamics in the e-waste industry of Ghana
Khiddir Iddris, Martin Owusu, Martin Oteng-Ababio, Ebenezer Forkuo Amankwaa
9) Professor Peter Haggett (1933–2025)
Richard Harris, Tony Hoare, Kelvyn Jones, David Richards, John Wylie

Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · Jun 24

A NEW ANIMATION - 'Ten ways to tackle racism at school'. The script for this was developed by five secondary school pupils at Shawlands Academy in Glasgow) in collaboration with @joeljoel.bsky.social and I following some research we did in the school.

youtu.be/NcZpL4kSLpU?...

10 ways to tackle racism at school

YouTube video by Peter Hopkins

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 6

And finally, @peterhopkins.bsky.social & @joeljoel.bsky.social reflect on Trump's Muslim-targeting travel bans and the Islamophobic politics at play in this administration.

'The "Islamophobia President" re-elected'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 14/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Peter Hopkins & Joel White (2025) entitled 'The "Islamophobia President" re-elected' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 6

The penultimate piece is by @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social (University of British Columbia), thinking through the implications of Trump's presidency for Indigenous environments and citizens in the US:

'Settler colonialism in Donald Trump's America'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 13/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles (2025) entitled 'Settler colonialism in Donald Trump's America' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 6

The tenth piece is written by Elizabeth Olson (University of North Carolina), considering the state of family care in the US under Trump.

'Care, family and crisis'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 12/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Elizabeth Olson (2025) entitled 'Care, family and crisis' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 6

The ninth piece is by @spacedemands.bsky.social, Bryttani Wooten & Danielle Purifoy, re-imagining Black futures in the face of violent anti-black politics.

'Black geographies in the wake: The afterlives of difference and the possibilities of reproductive justice'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 11/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by LaToya E. Eaves, Bryttani Wooten & Danielle Purifoy (2025) entitled 'Black geographies in the wake: The afterlives of difference and the possibilities of reproductive justice' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 6

The eighth piece is from Solange Muñoz & Pamela Sertzen, exploring the histories and geographies of Latinx populations in the US:

'Latinxs in the (newest) Trump era'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 10/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Solange Muñoz & Pamela Sertzen (2025) entitled 'Latinxs in the (newest) Trump era' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 5

The seventh piece is by Banu Gökarıksel (University of North Carolina), examining the exclusions which construct a white heteropatriarchal vision of American nationhood:

'Convergent exclusionary politics of gender & migration in Trump's re-election campaign, 2024–2025'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 9/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Banu Gökarıksel (2025) entitled 'Convergent exclusionary politics of gender and migration in Trump's re-election campaign, 2024–2025' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 5

The sixth piece in this collection is written by @wiley.pink, Sarah Fogel, @queergeog.bsky.social & @nickandplants.bsky.social, exploring the implications of the 2024 elections on trans lives.

'Resisting gender fascism'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 8/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Wiley Sharp, Sarah Fogel, Eden Kinkaid & Nick Koenig (2025) entitled 'Resisting gender fascism' with a blue banner at the top.

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The Geographical Journal @thegj.bsky.social · Jun 5

The fifth piece comes from Caroline Nagel (University of South Carolina), placing Trump's anti-immigration politics in historical context.

'Immigration policy in the second Trump administration: Restriction, removal, and the limits of MAGA nativism'

doi.org/10.1111/geoj... 7/14

Screenshot of a paper abstract in The Geographical Journal by Caroline Nagel (2025) entitled 'Immigration policy in the second Trump administration: Restriction, removal, and the limits of MAGA nativism' with a blue banner at the top.