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Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2019). Spirit knows: materiality, memory and the recovery of Spiritualist places and practices in Stoke-on-Trent. Social & Cultural Geography, 20(8) pp. 1114–1137.

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Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2018). Spaces of spirituality: an introduction. In: Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve eds. Spaces of Spirituality. Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity. London: Routledge, pp. 1–20.

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Bartolini, Nadia; Chris, Robert; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2017). The place of spirit: Modernity and the geographies of spirituality. Progress in Human Geography, 41(3) pp. 338–354.

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Bartolini, Nadia; Chris, Robert; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2013). Psychics, crystals, candles and cauldrons: alternative spiritualities and the question of their esoteric economies. Social & Cultural Geography, 14(4) pp. 367–388.

Battista, Kathy; LaBelle, Brandon; Penner, Barbara; Pile, Steve and Rendell, Jane (2005). Exploring ‘an area of outstanding unnatural beauty’: a treasure hunt around King’s Cross, London. Cultural Geographies, 12(4) pp. 429–462.

Campbell, Jan and Pile, Steve (2015). Passionate forms and the problem of subjectivity: Freud, Frau Emmy von N. and the unconscious communication of affect. Subjectivity, 8(1) pp. 1–24.

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Campbell, Janet and Pile, Steve (2011). Space travels of the Wolfman: phobia and its worlds. Psychoanalysis and History, 13(1) pp. 69–89.

Campbell, Jan and Pile, Steve (2010). Telepathy and its vicissitudes: Freud, thought transference and the hidden lives of the (repressed and non-repressed) unconscious. Subjectivity, 3(4) pp. 403–425.

Keith, Michael; Cramer-Greenbaum, Susannah; Murji, Karim; Pile, Steve; Solomos, John; Yazici, Eda and Wang, Ying (2025). Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination. The Sociological Review, 73(1) pp. 3–23.

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Kivland, Sharon and Pile, Steve (2017). Freud in London. In: Joseph-Lester, Joseph; King, Simon; Blier-Carruthers, Amy and Bottazzi, Roberto eds. Walking Cities: London. London: Camberwell Press, pp. 191–222.

Kingsbury, Paul and Pile, Steve (2014). Introduction: the Unconscious, Transference, Drives, Repetition and Other Things Tied to Geography. In: Kingsbury, Paul and Pile, Steve eds. Psychoanalytic Geographies. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 1–38.

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Keith, Michael and Pile, Steve (1993). Introduction. Part 1: The politics of place. In: Keith, Michael and Pile, Steve eds. Place and the Politics of Identity. London: Routledge, pp. 1–21.

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Keith, Michael and Pile, Steve (1993). Introduction. Part 2: The place of politics. In: Keith, Michael and Pile, Steve eds. Place and the Politics of Identity. London: Routledge, pp. 22–40.

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Lewis, Clare and Pile, Steve (1996). Woman, Body, Space: Rio Carnival and the politics of performance. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 3(1) pp. 23–41.

Murji, Karim; Cramer-Greenbaum, Susannah; Yazici, Eda; Keith, Michael; Pile, Steve and Solomos, John (2024). Representing London: making and claiming the city. City, 28(5-6) pp. 793–811.

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MacKian, Sara; Bartolini, Nadia; Pile, Steve and Sambo, Daniele (2016). Spiritualism in Stoke-on-Trent. Glasgow: TWTD Press.

Pile, Steve; Keith, Michael; Murji, Karim; Solomos, John; Yazici, Edanur and Cramer-Greenbaum, Susannah (2023). Politicization, postpolitics and the open city: Openness, closedness and the spatialisation of the political. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 41(6) pp. 1075–1093.

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Pile, Steve; Yazici, Edanur; Cramer-Greenbaum, Susannah; Keith, Michael; Murji, Karim and Solomos, John (2023). A Progressive Sense of Place and the Open City: micro-spatialities and micro-conflicts on a north London council estate. Geoforum, 144, article no. 103810.

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Pile, Steve (2023). Learning from Stoke-on-Trent: Multiple ontologies, ontological alterity and the city. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48(1) pp. 149–164.

Pile, Steve (2021). Bodies, Affects, Politics: The Clash of Bodily Regimes. RGIS-IBG Book Series. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Pile, Steve (2021). A public inquiry into Freud’s influence upon Cambridge. History of the Human Sciences, 35(2) pp. 205–211.

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Pile, Steve (2019). Affect and ideology: the political stake of desire. Emotion, Space and Society, 31 pp. 108–111.

Pile, Steve; Bartolini, Nadia and MacKian, Sara (2019). "Creating a World for Spirit": affectual infrastructures and the production of a place for affect. Emotion, Space and Society, 30 pp. 1–8.

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Pile, Steve; Bartolini, Nadia and MacKian, Sara (2018). Talking with the dead: spirit mediumship, affect and embodiment in Stoke-on-Trent. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 43(2) pp. 170–183.

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Pile, Steve (2018). The spiritual production of space. In: Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve eds. Spaces of Spirituality. Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity. London: Routledge, pp. 101–104.

Pile, Steve (2014). Beastly minds: a topological twist in the rethinking of the human in nonhuman geographies using two of Freud’s case studies, Emmy von N. and the Wolfman. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 39(2) pp. 224–236.

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Pile, Steve (2014). Pour ma vie citadine : Savage Beauty. In: Kivland, Sharon ed. Folles de leur corps / Crazy about their bodies. London: CGP London in association with Ma Bibliothèque, pp. 40–43.

Pile, Steve (2013). Postcards from the Unconscious: the shifting spaces of Kivland's Rome. Sharon Kivland: Reproductions II. London: Domobaal Editions.

Pile, Steve (2012). Distant feelings: telepathy and the problem of affect transfer over distance. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37(1) pp. 44–59.

Pile, Steve (2011). Spatialities of skin: the chafing of skin, ego and second skins in T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Body & Society, 17(4) pp. 57–81.

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Pile, Steve (2011). For a geographical understanding of affect and emotions. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36(4) pp. 603–606.

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Pile, Steve (2011). Intensities of feeling: Cloverfield, the uncanny, and the always near collapse of the city. In: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie eds. The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Blackwell Companions to Geography. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 288–303.

Pile, Steve (2011). Skin, race and space: the clash of bodily schemas in Frantz Fanon's Black Skins, White Masks and Nella Larsen's Passing. Cultural Geographies, 18(1) pp. 25–41.

Pile, Steve (2010). Emotions and affect in recent human geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(1) pp. 5–20.

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Pile, Steve (2010). Intimate distance: the unconscious dimensions of the rapport between researcher and researched. The Professional Geographer, 62(4) pp. 483–495.

Pile, Steve (2009). Topographies of the body-and-mind: Skin Ego, Body Ego, and the film 'Memento'. Subjectivity, 27(1) pp. 134–154.

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Pile, Steve (2008). Where is the subject? Geographical imaginations and spatializing subjectivity. Subjectivity, 23(1) pp. 206–216.

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Pile, Steve (2006). The strange case of Western cities: Occult globalisations and the making of urban modernity. Urban Studies, 43(2) pp. 305–318.

Pile, Steve (2005). Cultural geographies in practice: In the footsteps of angels: Tim Brennan’s ‘Museum of angels’ guided walk. Cultural Geographies, 12(4) pp. 521–526.

Pile, Steve (2005). Spectral Cities: Where the repressed returns and other short stories. In: Hillier, Jean and Rooksby, Emma eds. Habitus: A sense of place. Sydney: Ashgate, pp. 219–239.

Pile, Steve (2005). Real cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life. UK: Sage Publications Ltd.

Pile, Steve (2005). Building Dreams: space, psychoanalysis and the city. Annual of Psychoanalysis, 33 pp. 79–92.

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Pile, Steve (2004). Ghosts and the City of Hope. In: Lees, Loretta ed. The Emancipatory City: Paradoxes and possibilities. London: Sage, pp. 210–228.

Pile, Steve (2004). Living by Design: city life and the work of art. In: Larkinson, Emma ed. Desirable Places: The contribution of artists to creating spaces for public life. London: Article Press, pp. 5–15.

Pile, Steve (2003). Perpetual Returns: Vampires and the ever colonised city. In: Bishop, Ryan; Phillips, John and Yeo, Wei Wei eds. Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian cities and global processes. New York: Routledge, pp. 265–286.

Pile, Steve (2002). 'The Problem of London', or, how to explore the moods of the city. In: Leach, Neil ed. The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and experiencing the western metropolis. London: Routledge, pp. 203–216.

Pile, Steve (2002). Memory and the city. In: Campbell, Jan and Harbord, Janet eds. Temporalities, Autobiography and Everyday Life. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 111–127.

Pile, Steve (2001). The Un(known)City... or, an urban geography of what lies buried below the surface. In: Borden, Iain; Kerr, Joe; Rendell, Jane and Pivaro, Alicia eds. The Unknown City: Contesting architecture and social space. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 262–279.

Pile, Steve (2000). Sleepwalking in the Modern City: Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud in the world of dreams. In: Bridge, Gary and Watson, Sophie eds. A Companion to the City. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 75–86.

Pile, Steve (2000). The troubled spaces of Frantz Fanon. In: Crang, Mike and Thrift, Nigel eds. Thinking Space. Critical Geographies. London: Routledge, pp. 260–277.

Pile, Steve (1998). Freud, dreams and imaginative geographies. In: Elliott, Anthony ed. Freud 2000. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 204–234.

Pile, Steve (1997). Introduction: Opposition, political identities and spaces of resistance. In: Keith, Michael and Pile, Steve eds. Geographies of Resistance. London: Routledge, pp. 1–32.

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Pile, Steve (1996). The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, subjectivity and space. London: Routledge.

Pile, Steve (1995). 'What we are asking for is decent human life': SPLASH, neighbourhood demands and citizenship in London's docklands. Political Geography, 14(2) pp. 199–208.

Pile, Steve and Thrift, Nigel (1995). Introduction. In: Pile, Steve and Thrift, Nigel eds. Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation. London: Routledge, pp. 1–11.

Pile, Steve and Thrift, Nigel (1995). Mapping the Subject. In: Pile, Steve and Thift, Nigel eds. Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation. London: Routledge, pp. 12–51.

Pile, Steve (1994). Masculinism, the use of dualistic epistemologies and third spaces. Antipode, 26(3) pp. 255–277.

Pile, S. (1994). Echo, desire, and the grounds of knowledge: a mytho-poetic assessment of Buttimer's Geography and the Human Spirit. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 12(4) pp. 495–507.

Pile, Steve (1993). Human agency and human geography revisited: A critique of 'new models' of the self. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 18(1) pp. 122–139.

Pile, S. and Rose, G. (1992). All or nothing? Politics and critique in the modernism - postmodernism debate. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 10(2) pp. 123–136.

Pile, Steve (1992). 'All winds and weathers': Uncertainty, debt and the subsumption of the family farm. In: Gilg, Andrew ed. Restructuring the Countryside: Environmental policy in practice. Aldershot: Gower Press, pp. 69–82.

Pile, Steve (1991). 'A load of bloody idiots' Somerset dairy farmers' view of their political world. Political Geography Quarterly, 10(4) pp. 405–421.

Pile, Steve (1991). Practising interpretative geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 16(4) pp. 458–469.

Pile, Steve (1991). Securing the Future: 'Survival Strategies' amongst Somerset Dairy Farmers. Sociology, 25(2) pp. 255–274.

Pile, Steve (1990). The Private Farmer: Transformation and legitimation in advanced capitalist agriculture. Aldershot: Dartmouth Press.

Pile, S. (1990). Depth hermeneutics and critical human geography. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 8(2) pp. 211–232.

Rose, Mitch; Wylie, John; Brigstocke, Julian; Pile, Steve; Harrison, Paul and Dubow, Jessica (2025). [Book Review]: In Exile: Geography, Philosophy and Judaic Thought. The AAG Review of Books, 13(1) pp. 44–53.

Sambo, Daniele; Bartolini, Nadia; MacKian, Sara and Pile, Steve (2016). Nature Light Truth: An exploration of Spiritualism in the Everyday Life of Stoke-on-Trent. Glasgow: TWTD Press.

Smith, David M. and Pile, Steve (1993). Inequality in the American city: some evidence from the South. Geographia Polonica, 61 pp. 433–447.

Yazici, Edanur; Murji, Karim; Keith, Michael; Pile, Steve; Solomos, John and Wang, Ying (2023). ‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign. Urban Studies, 60(12) pp. 2418–2435.