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Watson, Sophie (2023). The Challenges of Consensus, Conflict and Democratic Participation in Turbulent Waters. In: Viderman, Tihomir; Knierbein, Sabine; Kränzle, Elina; Frank, Sybille; Roskamm, Nikolai and Wall, Ed eds. Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations. New York, NY: Routledge, pp. 261–270.

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Watson, Sophie and Breines, Markus (2023). Markets and belonging: Untangling myths of urban versus small-town life. In: Sezer, Ceren and van Melik, Rianne eds. Marketplaces: Movements, Representations and Practices. Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 129–138.

Watson, Sophie (2023). River crossings: the mighty London Thames. In: Bates, Charlotte and Moles, Kate eds. Living With Water: Everyday Encounters and Liquid Connections. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 82–99.

van Eck, Emil; Watson, Sophie; van Melik, Rianne; Breines, Markus; Dahinden, Janine; Jónsson, Gunvor; Lindmäe, Maria; Madella, Marco; Menet, Joanna and Schapendonk, Joris (2022). Moving marketplaces: Understanding public space from a relational mobility perspective. Cities, 127, article no. 103721.

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Taylor, Myfanwy; Watson, Sophie; González, Sara; Buckner, Lisa; Newing, Andy and Wilkinson, Rosie (2021). Queen's Market: A successful and specialised market serving diverse communities in Newham and Beyond. High Streets Task Force, London.

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Rose, Gillian; Raghuram, Parvati; Watson, Sophie and Wigley, Edward (2021). Platform urbanism, smartphone applications and valuing data in a smart city. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(1) pp. 59–72.

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Watson, Sophie (2021). Epilogue. In: Bramadat, Paul; Griera, Mar; Martínez-Ariño, Julia and Burchardt, Marian eds. Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Space. Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place. London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 203–208.

Watson, Sophie (2021). Reflections on Water, Bodies and Habit. In: Bennett, Tony; Dibley, Ben; Hawkins, Guy and Noble, Greg eds. Assembling and Governing Habits. CRESC: Culture, Economy and the Social. London: Routledge, pp. 116–131.

Watson, Sophie ed. (2019). Spatial Justice in the City. Space, Materiality and the Normative. Abingdon: Routledge.

Watson, Sophie (2019). Spatial Justice and Religious Water Based Practices. In: Watson, Sophie ed. Spatial Justice in the City. Space, Materiality and the Normative. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 62–78.

Watson, Sophie (2019). Introducing Spatial Justice. In: Watson, Sophie ed. Spatial Justice in the City. Space, Materiality and the Normative. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1–7.

Watson, Sophie (2019). City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water. Palgrave Macmillan.

Watson, Sophie (2019). Liquid passions: bodies, publics and city waters. Social & Cultural Geography, 20(7) pp. 960–980.

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Watson, Sophie (2019). Sociality Materiality and the City. In: Schwanen, Tim and van Kempen, Ronald eds. Handbook or Urban Geography. Research Handbooks in Geography. Edward Elgar, pp. 328–340.

Watson, Sophie (2018). The Challenges of collaboration and democratic participation in turbulent and unsettled times. Tracce Urbane: Italian Journal of Urban studies, 3 pp. 66–74.

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Dodsworth, Francis and Watson, Sophie (2018). Coping with change: community, environment, and engagement in a London Buddhist Community. In: Dodsworth, Francis and Walford, Antonia eds. A World Laid Waste? Responding to the Social, Cultural and Political Consequences of Globalisation. Culture, Economy and the Social. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 88–108.

King, Andy; Murji, Karim; Neal, Sarah; Watson, Sophie and Woodward, Kath (2017). Editors’ Report 2017. Sociology, 51(6) pp. 1127–1131.

Watson, Sophie (2017). Consuming water smartly: the significance of sociocultural differences to water-saving initiatives. Local Environment, 22(10) pp. 1237–1251.

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Watson, Sophie (2016). Making multiculturalism. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(15) pp. 2635–2652.

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King, Andrew; Neal, Sarah; Murji, Karim; Watson, Sophie and Woodward, Kath (2016). Editors’ Report 2016. Sociology, 50(2) pp. 227–230.

Payne, Kellie and Watson, Sophie (2016). Smart Practices: Reflections on the Smarter Home Visit in two London boroughs. CRESC, The University of Manchester and the Open University.

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Watson, Sophie and Zanetti, Oliver (2016). Religion as practices of attachment and materiality: the making of Buddhism in contemporary London. Culture and Religion, 17(3) pp. 257–278.

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Dodsworth, Francis; Vacchelli, Elena and Watson, Sophie (2015). City. In: Brent Plate, S. ed. Key Terms in Material Religion. London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 41–48.

Watson, Sophie (2015). Mundane objects in the city: Laundry practices and the making and remaking of public/private sociality and space in London and New York. Urban Studies, 52(5) pp. 876–890.

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Saha, Anamik and Watson, Sophie (2014). Ambivalent affect/emotion: Conflicted discourses of multicultural belonging. In: Jones, Hannah and Jackson, Emma eds. Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging: Emotion and location. Routledge, pp. 99–111.

Watson, Sophie (2014). Spaces of difference: challenging urban divisions from the north to the south. In: Parnell, Susan and Oldfield, Sophie eds. The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South. Routledge, pp. 385–395.

Watson, Sophie (2013). Global futures: reflections on culture, diversity and planning for the twenty-first Century. In: Young, Greg and Stevenson, Deborah eds. The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and Culture. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 23–36.

Dodsworth, Francis; Vacchelli, Elena and Watson, Sophie (2013). Shifting religions and cultures in London's East End. Material Religion, 9(1) pp. 86–112.

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Watson, Sophie and Saha, Anamik (2013). Suburban drifts: mundane multiculturalism in outer London. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 36(12) pp. 2016–2034.

Watson, Sophie and Dodsworth, Francis (2012). Into unorthodox London: the religious ethnography of Charles Maurice Davies. Victorian Literature and Culture, 40(2) pp. 487–508.

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 mobilities. In: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, pp. 157–169.

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.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2010). Introducing mobilities. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. Blackwell City Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 97–102.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2010). Introducing materialities. In: Watson, Sophie ed. Blackwell City Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 3–10.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2010). Introducing division and difference. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. Blackwell City Reader (2nd revised edition). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, pp. 171–177.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2010). Introducing urban politics and urban cultures. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. Blackwell City Reader (2nd revised edition). Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, pp. 255–261.

Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary (2010). Introducing urban politics and planning. In: Watson, Sophie and Bridge, Gary eds. Blackwell City Reader (2nd revised edition). Chichester: Blackwell, pp. 333–339.

Watson, Sophie (2009). The magic of the market place: Sociality in a neglected public space. Urban Studies, 46(8) pp. 1577–1591.

Watson, Sophie (2009). Performing religion: Migrants, the church and belonging in Marrickville, Sydney. Culture and Religion, 10(3) pp. 317–338.

Watson, Sophie (2009). Brief encounters of an unpredictable kind: Everyday multiculturalism in three London street markets. In: Wise, Amanda and Velayutham, Selvaraj eds. Everyday Multiculturalism. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 125–139.

Watson, Sophie (2008). Productive Potentialities in Public-Private and Private-Public Space. Urban Design, 108 pp. 31–34.

Carter, Simon; Jordan, Tim and Watson, Sophie eds. (2008). Security: Sociology and social worlds. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Watson, Sophie (2008). Security in the City. In: Carter, Simon; Jordan, Timothy and Watson, Sophie eds. Security: Sociology and Social Worlds. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 111–144.

Watson, Sophie (2008). Abandoning the Monumental and Seeking the Serendipitous. In: Pagh, Christian and Verstaval, Ida eds. Changing Metropolis. Copenhagen, Denmark: VIA design.

Watson, Sophie (2006). City publics: the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters. Questioning Cities. UK: Routledge.

Watson, Sophie and Studdert, David (2006). Markets as sites for social interaction : spaces of diversity. Bristol: Policy Press.

Watson, Sophie (2005). Symbolic spaces of difference: contesting the Eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(4) pp. 597–613.

Wells, Karen and Watson, Sophie (2005). A Politics of resentment: shopkeepers in a London neighbourhood. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 28(2) pp. 261–277.

Watson, Sophie and Wells, Karen (2005). Spaces of nostalgia: the hollowing out of a London market. Social & Cultural Geography, 6(1) pp. 17–30.

Redman, Peter; Silva, Elizabeth and Watson, Sophie (2005). The uses of sociology: introduction. In: Redman, Peter; Silva, Elizabeth and Watson, Sophie eds. The Uses of Sociology. UK: Open University Worldwide, ix-xiv.

Watson, Sophie (2004). Cultures of democracy. In: Barnett, Clive and Low, Murray eds. Spaces of democracy: geographical perspectives on citizenship, participation and representation. Sage Publications Ltd.

Watson, Sophie (2004). Refuges. In: Harrison, Stephan; Pile, Steve and Thrift, Nigel eds. Patterned ground: entanglements of nature and culture. London, UK: Reaktion Books.

Watson, Sophie (2003). Housing diversity in the global city. In: Forrest, Ray and Lee, James eds. Housing and social change: East-West perspectives. Housing and society series. London, UK: Routledge.

Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie (2002). Lest power be forgotten: networks, division and difference in the city. Sociological Review, 50(4) pp. 505–524.

Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie eds. (2002). Blackwell Reader on the City. Blackwell Readers in Geography. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Watson, Sophie (2002). The Public city. In: Eade, John and Mele, Christopher eds. Understanding the city: contemporary and future perspectives. Studies in Urban and Social Change. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie (2001). Retext(ur)ing the City. City, 5(3) pp. 350–362.