School of Geography - Faculty of Environment

RESEARCH OVERVIEW

Dr Stuart Hodkinson is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow. His main research focus is on the ‘new urban enclosures’, specifically re-examining the motivations, mechanisms and impacts of housing privatisation and regeneration in Britain. He has a particular interest in the Private Finance Initiative and is also interested in asylum and migration policies, particularly in relation to migrant destitution, detention and deportation.

CURRENT PROJECTS

The New Enclosures

MA Activism and Social Change

The Right to Stay Put

RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS

• Cities and Social Justice
• Citizenship and Belonging
• Transnational Institute
• Focus on the Global South

PUBLICATIONS

• (2009) ‘From Popular Capitalism to Third-Way Modernisation: the Case of Leeds’, in Glynn, S. (ed.), Where the Other Half Lives: Lower-income Housing in a Neoliberal World. London: Pluto Press
• (with P Chatterton, P) (2006), ‘Autonomy in the City?’ Initial reflections on the social centres movement in the UK', City, 10:3 [PDF]

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