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Sophie Watson

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Biography:
City cultures, city materialities, difference, public space. Religion, the city and materiality. Street markets as sites of sociabilty and public space. Eco-cities

Current research interests:
2010 Consultant to Regeneris on the LDA report on London’s street markets. 2009 Special Adviser to Department of Communities and Local Government Inquiry into Traditional Retail Markets

E-mail: s.watson@open.ac.uk

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

Francis Dodsworth and Sophie Watson (2012), 'Into Unorthodox London: The Religious Ethnography of Charles Maurice Davies', Victorian Literature and Culture, Forthcoming (Forthcoming).
Francis Dodsworth and Sophie Watson (2011), 'Constituting Religious Publics: The Tale of Two Non-Conformist Churches in London.', Culture and Religion, 12 (1), 1-19.
Sophie Watson (2009), 'Peforming Religion: Migrants, the church and belonging in Marrickville, Sydney', Culture and Religion, 10 (3), 317.
Sophie Watson (2009), 'The Magic of the Market Place: Sociality in a Neglected Public Space', Urban Studies, 46 (8), 1577.
Sophie Watson (2008), 'Productive Potentialities in Public-Private and Private-Public Space', Urban Design (108), 31-34.
Karen Wells and Sophie Watson (2005), 'A Politics of Resentment: shopkeepers in a London Neighbourhood', Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28 (2), 261-277.
Sophie Watson (2005), 'Spaces of Nostalgia: The Hollowing out of a London Market', Journal of Social and Cultural Geography., 6 (1), 17-30.
Sophie Watson (2005), 'Symbolic Spaces of Difference: Contesting the Eruv in London and Tenafly', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23 (4), 597–613.

Working Paper

Francis Dodsworth, Elena Vacchelli, Sophie Watson (2011), 'Shaping religious community in East London', CRESC Working Paper 102.
Simon Carter, Francis Dodsworth, Evelyn Ruppert, Sophie Watson (2011), 'Thinking Cities Through Objects', CRESC Working Paper 096.

Book Chapters

Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2011), 'Reflections on Affect', 277-288, in Bridge and Watson, The New Blackwell Companion to the City, Oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2011), 'Reflections on Materialities', 3-15, in Bridge and Watson, The New Blackwell Companion to the City, Oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2011), 'Reflections on Mobilities', 157-169, in Bridge and Watson, The New Blackwell Companion to the City, Oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2011), 'Reflections on Division and Difference', 501-511, in Bridge and Watson, The New Blackwell Companion to the City, oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2011), 'Reflections on Politics and Planning', 619-631, in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, The New Blackwell Companion to the City, Oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2011), 'Reflections on Publics and Cultures', 379-390, in Bridge and Watson, The New Blackwell Companion to the City, Oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2010), 'Introducing Urban politics and Planning', 331-339, in Bridge and Watson, The Blackwell City Reader..
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2010), 'Introducing Division and Difference', 169-177, in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, The Blackwell City Reader..
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2010), 'Introducing Materialities', 1-11, in Bridge and Watson, The Blackwell City Reader, Oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2010), 'Introducing Mobilities', 97-103, in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, The Blackwell City Reader., Oxford: Blackwell.
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2010), 'Introducing Urban Publics and Urban Cultures', 253-261, in Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson, The Blackwell City Reader., Oxford: Blackwell.
Sophie Watson (2009), 'Brief Encounters of an unpredictable kind: Everyday Multiculturalism in three London street markets.', 125-140, in Wise, A and Velayutham, S, Everyday Multiculturalism, London: Palgrave.
Sophie Watson (2008), 'Fear in the city', in Simon Carter Tim Jordan Sophie Watson, Security: Sociology and Social Worlds (Making Social Worlds), Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Projects

Culture, Governance and Citizenship

Eco cities

This project aims:

I. To compare the economic, social and...
City Objects

This comparative international project explores street objects as devices for understanding city cultures, sociality and the formation of publics.
Religion, culture and materiality

This project aims to explore socio-cultural and religious change through religious, buildings, sites and spaces of East London.

Governing Cultures: Cities, Policies, Heritage

Street Markets and Diversity

Street markets across the world are significant sites of commerce, trade and consumption. In Britain there are 1400 markets at the present time, although increasingly many markets in the last 20...

Events

Religion culture and and materiality

Wed, Apr 27th 2011 - Thu, Apr 28th 2011

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