Publications

Journal articles

• White J, Hopkins P. Beyond Kenmure Street: lifecycles of antiracism amongst activists in Glasgow. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2026. In Press.
• Khanji MY, Green N, Khan N, Imtiaz-Umer S, Rahman MEF, Hopkins P, Younis T, Kader Y. Well-being impact, freedom of expression, censorship and Islamophobia experienced by Muslim healthcare professionals during the current Gaza genocide. Medicine, Conflict and Survival 2025, epub ahead of print.
• Hopkins P, White J. The ‘Islamophobia President’ re-elected. The Geographical Journal 2025, 191(4), e70017.
• Khan T, Hopkins P. Experiencing the summer 2024 UK riots: Reflections from North East England. The Geographical Journal 2025, epub ahead of print.
• Huizinga RP, Hopkins P, Benwell MC, de Backer M, Finlay R, Hörschelmann K, Kirndörfer E, van Liempt I. Ethical and methodological considerations in research with asylum seeking and refugee youth in European cities. Social Sciences 2025, 14(4), 204.
• Hopkins P. Practising anti-Islamophobic geographies. Space and Polity 2024, 28(1), 1-19.
• Kapinga L, van Hoven B, Bock BB, Hopkins P. Young Muslims’ religious identities in relation to places beyond the UK: a qualitative map-making technique in Newcastle upon Tyne. Children’s Geographies 2023, 21(4), 609-623.
• Benwell MC, Hopkins P, Finlay R. The slow violence of austerity politics and the UK’s ‘hostile environment’: Examining the responses of third sector organisations supporting people seeking asylum. Geoforum 2023, 145, 103845.
• Hopkins P, Pande R, Ali R, Chambers C, Phillips R. Working with community interviewers in social and cultural research. Area 2022, 54(3), 400-407.
• Gao Q, Hopkins P. Using intersectionality to explore social inequalities amongst Christian family migrants in China . The Geographical Journal 2022, 188(2), 177-189.
• Hopkins P. What is Islamophobia?. Sociology Review 2021, 30(April), 10-12.
• Hopkins P. Social geography III: Committing to social justice. Progress in Human Geography 2021, 45(2), 382-393.
• Najib K, Hopkins P. Where does Islamophobia take place and who is involved? Reflections from Paris and London. Social and Cultural Geography 2020, 21(4), 458-478.
• Hopkins P. Social Geography II: Islamophobia, transphobia, and sizism. Progress in Human Geography 2020, 44(3), 583-594.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P. Resistance and Marginalisation: Islamophobia and the Political Participation of Young Muslims in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography 2020, 21(4), 546-568.
• Phillips R, Chambers C, Ali N, Pande R, Hopkins P. Mobilizing Pakistani heritage, approaching marriage. Ethnic and Racial Studies 2020, 43(16), 1-19.
• Hopkins P. Households, families, and structural inequalities: Reflections on “How the other half lives”. Area 2020, 52(4), 806-811.
• Ali N, Phillips R, Chambers C, Narkowicz K, Hopkins P, Pande R. Halal dating: Changing relationship attitudes and experiences among young British Muslims. Sexualities 2020, 23(5-6), 775-792.
• Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera GS. Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies towards ontological security in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography 2019, 20(4), 465-484.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P. Young Muslim women’s political participation in Scotland: Exploring the intersections of gender, religion, class and place. Political Geography 2019, 74, 102046.
• Najib K, Hopkins P. Veiled Muslim women’s strategies in response to Islamophobia in Paris. Political Geography 2019, 73, 103-111.
• Hopkins P. Social geography I: Intersectionality. Progress in Human Geography 2019, 43(5), 937-947.
• Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Hopkins P, Pande R, and Richardson M. Race, place and young people in the age of Brexit. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 17-23.
• Burrell K, Hopkins P, Isakjee A, Lorne C, Nagel C, Finlay R, Nayak A, Benwell MC, Pande R, Richardson M, Botterill K, Rogaly B. Brexit, race and migration. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 2019, 37(1), 3-40.
• Hopkins P, Botterill K, Sanghera G. Towards inclusive geographies? Young people, religion, race and migration. Geography 2018, 103(2), 86-92.
• Chambers C, Phillips R, Nafhesa A, Hopkins P, Pande R. ‘Sexual misery’ or ‘happy British Muslims’?: Contemporary depictions of Muslim sexuality. Ethnicities 2018, 19(1), 66-94.
• Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera G. Familial geopolitics and ontological security: intergenerational relations, migration and minority youth (in)securities in Scotland. Geopolitics 2018, 25(5), 1138-1163.
• Sanghera GS, Botterill K, Hopkins P, Arshad R. ‘Living Rights’, Rights Claims, Performative Citizenship and Young People – The Right to Vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum. Citizenship Studies 2018, 22(5), 540-555.
• Hopkins P, Sinclair C, Student Research Committee. Research, relevance and respect: Co-creating a guide about involving young people in social research. Research for All 2017, 1(1), 121-127.
• Hopkins P, Botterill K, Sanghera G, Arshad R. Encountering Misrecognition: Being Mistaken for Being Muslim. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 2017, 107(4), 934-948.
• Botterill K, Hopkins P, Sanghera G, Arshad R. Securing disunion: Young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography 2016, 55, 124-134.
• Possamai A, Dunn K, Hopkins P, Amin F, Worthington L, Ali J. Muslim students’ religious and cultural experiences in the micro-publics of university campuses in NSW, Australia. Australian Geographer 2016, 47(3), 311-324.
• Possamai A, Dunn K, Hopkins P, Worthington L, Amin F. Muslim students’ cultural and religious experiences in city, suburban and regional university campuses in NSW, Australia. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 2016, 38(6), 637-648.
• Hopkins P. Gendering Islamophobia, racism and white supremacy: gendered violence against those who look Muslim. Dialogues in Human Geography 2016, 8(2), 186-189.
• Hopkins P. Managing strangerhood: young Sikh men’s strategies. Environment and Planning A 2014, 46(7), 1572-1585.
• Hopkins P. Towards critical geographies of the university campus: understanding the contested experiences of Muslim students. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2011, 36(1), 157-169.
• Hopkins P, Hill M. The needs and strengths of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people in Scotland. Child and Family Social Work 2010, 15(4), 399-408.
• Hopkins PE. Responding to the ‘crisis of masculinity’: the perspectives of young Muslim men from Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland. Gender, Place and Culture 2009, 16(3), 299-312.
• Hopkins PE. Men, women, positionalities and emotion: doing feminist geographies of religion. ACME: an International Journal for Critical Geographers 2009, 8(1), 1-17.
• Hopkins P. Geographical contributions to understanding contemporary Islam: current trends and future directions. Contemporary Islam 2009, 3(3), 213-227.
• Hopkins PE, Hill M. Pre-flight experiences and migration stories: the accounts of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Children’s Geographies 2008, 6(3), 257-268.
• Hopkins PE. Ethical issues in research with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Children’s Geographies 2008, 6(1), 37-48.
• Hopkins PE. Young people, masculinities, religion and race: new social geographies. Progress in Human Geography 2007, 31(2), 163-177.
• Hopkins P. Thinking critically and creatively about focus groups. Area 2007, 39(4), 528-535.
• Hopkins PE. Positionalities and knowledge: Negotiating ethics in practice. ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographers 2007, 6(3), 386-394.
• Hopkins PE. Global events, national politics, local lives: young Muslim men in Scotland. Environment and Planning A 2007, 39(5), 1119-1133.
• Hopkins PE. ‘Blue squares’, ‘proper’ Muslims and transnational networks Narratives of national and religious identities amongst young Muslim men living in Scotland. Ethnicities 2007, 7(1), 61-81.
• Hopkins PE. Youthful Muslim masculinities: gender and generational relations. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2006, 31(3), 337-352.
• Howard D, Hopkins PE. Editorial introduction: race, religion and the census. Population, Space and Place 2005, 11(2), 69-74.
• Hopkins PE. Young Muslim men in Scotland: Inclusions and Exclusions. Children’s Geographies 2004, 2(2), 257-272.
• Hopkins PE. Everyday Racism in Scotland: A Case Study of East Pollokshields. Scottish Affairs 2004, 49(Autumn), 88-103.

Book chapters

• Finlay R, Hopkins P. Spatialising Islamophobia: responding to and resisting anti-Muslim racism in Scotland. In: Easat-Daas, A; Zempi, I, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia. Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan, 2024, pp.239-254.
• Hopkins P, White J. Islamophobia. In: Warf B, ed. The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Dordrecht: Springer, 2024, pp.1-5.
• Hopkins P. Intersectionality, intergenerational relations, and relationality: revisiting youthful Muslim masculinities. In: Kong L; Woods O; Tse JKH, ed. Handbook of Geographies of Religion. London: Springer, 2024, pp.533-540.
• De Backer M, Hopkins P, van Liempt I. Refugee youth: Politics, Publicness and Visibility. In: De Backer M; Hopkins P; van Liempt I; Finlay R; Kirndörfer E; Kox M; Benwell MC; Hörschelmann K, ed. Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, pp.231-237.
• Hopkins P, Finlay R. Politics, institutions and place: researching sensitive subjects in urban contexts. In: Lovell SA; Coen SE; Rosenberg MW, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography. London, UK: Routledge, 2023, pp.339-347.
• De Backer M, Hopkins P, van Liempt I. Introducing Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space. In: De Backer M; Hopkins P; van Liempt I; Finlay R; Kirndörfer E; Kox M; Benwell MC; Hörschelmann K, ed. Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023, pp.1-13.
• Hopkins P. Spatializing hate: relational, intersectional and emotional approaches. In: Hall, E; Clayton, J; Donovan, C, ed. Landscapes of Hate: Tracing Spaces, Relations and Responses. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022, pp.238-246.
• Najib K, Finlay R. Religion. In: Authored by the The Newcastle Social Geographies Collective and edited by Rachel Pain and Peter Hopkins, ed. Social Geographies: An Introduction. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
• Finlay R, Hopkins P, Sanghera G. Young Muslims’ political interests and political participations in Scotland. In: Hopkins, P, ed. Scotland’s Muslims: Society, Politics and Identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp.78-97.
• Hopkins P. Religion. In: Richardson D, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. London, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
• Botterill K, Sanghera G, Hopkins P. Muslim youth in Scotland: Politics, identity and multicultural citizenship. In: Hopkins, P, ed. Scotland’s Muslims: society, politics and identity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp.136-154.
• Hopkins P. Deflections, displacements, disengagements. In: Meer, N, ed. Scotland and Race Equality: Directions in Policy and Identity. London, UK: Runnymede, 2016, pp.30-31.
• Hopkins PE, Hill M. Contested bodies of asylum-seeking children. In: Horschelmannm K; Colls R, ed. Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010, pp.136-147.
• Hill M, Hopkins PE. Safeguarding children who are refugees or asylum seekers: managing multiple scales of legislation and policy. In: Broadhurst K; Grover C; Jamieson J; Mason C, ed. Safeguarding children: critical perspectives. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009.
• Gale R, Hopkins PE. Muslims in Britain: race, space and the spatiality of identities. In: Hopkins P; Gale, R, ed. Muslims in Britain: race, place and identities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp.236.
• van Hoven B, Hopkins PE. Masculinities. In: Kitchin R; Thrift N, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Amsterdam; London; Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2009.
• Hopkins PE. Deconstructing geographical binaries: Muslims in the West. In: Phillips R, ed. Muslim spaces of hope: geographies of possibility in Britain and the West. London: Zed Books, 2009, pp.27-40.
• Hopkins PE. Young, male, Scottish and Muslim: a portrait of Kabir. In: Jeffrey C; Dyson J, ed. Telling Young Lives: portraits of global youth. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008, pp.69-80.
• Hopkins PE, Smith SJ. Scaling segregation; racialising fear. In: Pain R; Smith S, ed. Fear: critical geopolitics and everyday life. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.103-116.
• Hopkins PE. Race, nation and politics: the difference that Scotland makes. In: Dwyer C; Bressey C, ed. New Geographies of Race and Racism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp.113-124.
• Hopkins PE. Young Muslim men’s experiences of local landscapes after 11 September 2001. In: Aitchison C; Hopkins PE; Kwan M-P, ed. Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp.189-200.
• Hopkins PE, Kwan M-P, Aitchison C. Introduction: Geographies of Muslim Identities. In: Aitchison C; Hopkins P; Kwan M-P, ed. Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007, pp.1-10.