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peterhopkins.bsky.social
Peter Hopkins
@peterhopkins.bsky.social
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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.
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 12d
@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 · 12d
📢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 · 14d
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 · 14d
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 · 14d
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 · 14d
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)
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 15d
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
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 21d
A new book out today @brisunipress.bsky.social. You can order your copy here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/everyday-isl...
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 21d
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 · 21d
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
www.youtube.com
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 21d
A new book out today @brisunipress.bsky.social. You can order your copy here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/everyday-isl...
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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?
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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?
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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?
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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.
from.ncl.ac.uk
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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'
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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
YouTube video by Peter Hopkins
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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.
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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 · 23d
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.
from.ncl.ac.uk
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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
YouTube video by Peter Hopkins
www.youtube.com
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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.
from.ncl.ac.uk
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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
www.youtube.com
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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
www.youtube.com
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Peter Hopkins @peterhopkins.bsky.social · 23d
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
www.youtube.com
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