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By Professor Laurie Taylor (Guest), Professor Sophie Watson (The Open University), Professor Matthew Gandy (Guest)

23 May 2011

As Phoenix grows a square mile a day, Eastern European cities are knocking down unwanted housing. Our relationship with cities is increasingly complex...  Read more : We make the cities, and the city makes us

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By Professor Sophie Watson (The Open University)

26 March 2008

The process of gentrification - as explored in Marseille - is a common one in Western cities. Sophie Watson explores how rough neighbourhoods become magnets...  Read more : Gentrification

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By Professor Sophie Watson (The Open University)

20 December 2007

In this extract adapted from course materials for The Open University course Making social worlds, Sophie Watson explains how the development of cities has always...  Read more : Security and the city

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Watson, Sophie and Dodsworth, Francis (2012). Into unorthodox London: the religious ethnography of Charles Maurice Davies. Victorian Literature and Culture, 40(2), (in press).

Watson, Sophie and Saha, Anamik (2012). Suburban drifts: mundane multiculturalism in outer London. Ethnic and Racial Studies (In press).

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2011). Reflections on publics and cultures. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 379–390.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2011). Reflections on division and difference. In: Watson , Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 501–511.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2011). Reflections on Politics and Planning. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Oxford, UK: John Wiley and Sons, pp. 619–631.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. (2011). The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2011). Reflections on materialities. In: Bridge, gary and Watson, Sophie eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Oxford, UK: Blackwells, pp. 3–15.

Watson, Sophie and Dodsworth, Francis (2011). Constituting religious publics: the tale of two non-conformist churches in London. Culture and Religion, 12(1), pp. 1–19.

Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie (2011). Reflections on affect. In: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 277–287.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. (2010). The Blackwell City Reader (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.

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Sophie Watson is professor of sociology at The Open University. Her research interests include public space and the multi-cultural practices of everyday life; religion, culture and materiality; new religious cultural practices, identities and spaces.

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