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Sarah M. Hughes
@sarahhughes90.bsky.social
Political Geographer.
Resistance, Asylum Politics, Creativity. Loves cats 😺

Edited book 'Critical Geographies of Resistance' available from www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/critical-geographies-of-resistance-9781800882874.html
I'm so grateful to @spaceandpolity.bsky.social for coordinating a book review forum on Critical Geographies of Resistance.

Thank you so much to Malene Jacobsen, Nicole Printy Currie and Bridget Shaffrey @bshaffrey.bsky.social for your thoughtful pieces.

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What does academic writing about resistance do, now?
Published in Space and Polity (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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September 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...
After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works
Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.
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September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Really happy to see this out "Theorising legal gaps geographically: Exploring the transition from asylum seeker to refugee in the UK"
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
When a positive decision is granted on an asylum claim, a new refugee has limited time before their existing government support (housing, finance) terminates. This transition between legal is various...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Looking for Paul Rimmer's report into the Afghan Relocation Route... should have been released to the public yesterday? Can anyone find it?
July 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Now out and #openaccess in issue 30(1): "A Cultural Geopolitics of Hosting: Domesticity, Violence and Hospitality in the Home" by Olivia Mason and Sarah M. Hughes @oliviamason.bsky.social @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

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February 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Advertising a fully-funded PHD at Northumbria University looking at how Urban Social Infrastructures (USIs) can be better-provided in UK cities to improve (holistic) Gen-Z Mens' Health and Wellbeing. Get in touch if interested, deadline January. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Critically Understanding the Urban Social Infrastructures (USI) Needed for Young Mens’ Health and Wellbeing in UK Cities (IDRT25/EE/UF/LUGER) at Northumbria University, listed on F...
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November 23, 2024 at 11:51 AM
This looks like a fab new paper on #archives, #climate action and participatory research methods @area @rgsibg.bsky.social
First post! I had a new paper published in Area @areajournal.bsky.social yesterday 🥳 "Watery archives: Reflections on doing participatory archival research for climate action and audience engagement" co-authored with my wonderful Archivist colleague Claire Weatherall doi.org/10.1111/area...
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on our experience of running a workshop at the Hull History Centre in the Summer of 2023 and reflects on the value of participatory approaches and co-production to open up access ....
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November 22, 2024 at 4:35 PM