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2000

Watt, Paul and Jacobs, K. (2000) Discourses of social exclusion: an analysis of bringing Britain together: a national strategy for neighbourhood renewal. Housing, Theory and Society 17 (1), pp. 14-26. ISSN 1403-6096.

2002

Cox, Rosie and Watt, Paul (2002) Globalization, polarization and the informal sector: the case of paid domestic workers in London. Area 34 (1), pp. 39-47. ISSN 0004-0894.

2003

Watt, Paul (2003) Urban marginality and labour market restructuring: local authority tenants and employment in an inner London borough. Urban Studies 40 (9), pp. 1769-1789. ISSN 0042-0980.

2005

Watt, Paul (2005) Housing histories and fragmented middle-class careers: the case of marginal professionals in London council housing. Housing Studies 20 (3), pp. 359-381. ISSN 0267-3037.

2006

Gifford, C. and Watt, Paul and Clarke, Wayne and Koster, S. (2006) Negotiating participation and power in a school setting: the implementation of active citizenship within the undergraduate sociology curriculum. LATISS - Learning and Teaching in the Social Sciences 2 (3), pp. 175-190. ISSN 1740-5866.

Watt, Paul (2006) Respectability, roughness and 'race': neighbourhood place images and the making of working-class social distinctions in London. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30 (4), pp. 776-797. ISSN 1468-2427.

2007

Watt, Paul (2007) From the dirty city to the spoiled suburb. In: Campkin, B. and Cox, Rosie (eds.) Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination. London, UK: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781780764177.

Watt, Paul (2007) 'I need people that are happy, always smiling': guest interaction and emotional labour in a Canadian downtown hotel. Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society 10 , pp. 45-59.

Butler, T. and Watt, Paul (2007) Understanding social inequality. Sage. ISBN 9780761963707.

2008

Watt, Paul and Gifford, C. and Koster, S. (2008) Working with schools: active citizenship for undergraduate social science students. In: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) University Life Uncovered: Making Sense of the Student Experience. Southampton, UK: Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP). ISBN 9780854328901.

March 2008

Watt, Paul (2008) Moving to a better place? Geographies of aspiration and anxiety in the Thames gateway. In: Cohen, P. and Rustin, M.J. (eds.) London’s Turning: The Making of Thames Gateway. Design and the Built Environment. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 149-168. ISBN 9780754670636.

Watt, Paul (2008) The only class in town? gentrification and the middle-class colonization of the city and the urban imagination. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 32 (1), pp. 206-211. ISSN 0309-1317.

November 2008

Watt, Paul (2008) 'Underclass' and 'ordinary people' discourses: representing/re-presenting council tenants in a housing campaign. Critical Discourse Studies 5 (4), pp. 345-357. ISSN 1740-5904.

23 December 2008

Watt, Paul (2008) Social housing and regeneration in London. In: Imrie, R. and Lees, L and Raco, M. (eds.) Regenerating London: Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 212-236. ISBN 9780415433679.

2009

Watt, Paul (2009) Anti-stock transfer campaigns in London and South East England: defending council housing and resisting gentrification. In: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, 2009, Manchester. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul and Simpson, L. and Beider, H. and Ozuekren, A.S. (2009) "Are you local?" A reply to Malcolm Harrison on the dilemmas of localist particularism. People, Place and Policy Online 3 (3), pp. 147-156. ISSN 1753-8041.

Watt, Paul (2009) Comments on ‘New Contexts, New Challenges: Revisiting Equal Opportunities, Particularism, and Ethnic Relations’ by Malcolm Harrison. People, Place and Policy Online 3 (3), pp. 147-150. ISSN 1753-8041.

Watt, Paul (2009) Deconstructing the public housing ‘underclass’ discourse: a critical discourse analysis of an anti-stock transfer campaign. In: International Sociological Association ISA Housing Conference, 2009, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

Millington, G. and Watt, Paul and Huq, R. (2009) From the backbone to the edge of the nation: 'race', class and the Cockney diaspora in suburban Essex. In: The Diverse Suburb Conference, 2009, Hofstra University, New York. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul (2009) From the centre to the margins of the nation: mobilities, whiteness and the Cockney diaspora in Essex. In: Diaspora Cities: Urban Mobility and Dwelling Conference, 2009, Queen Mary, University of London. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul (2009) Hands off our homes: a successful anti-stock transfer campaign in Buckinghamshire. In: Tenants Movement: A Hidden History Conference, 2009, Leeds. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul and Gifford, C. and Koster, S. and Clark, W. (2009) 'I felt really inspired by it, it was really interesting to interact with the pupils’: active citizenship in the British undergraduate social science curriculum. Greek Social Science Tribune. Special English Edition: From a National Identity to a European One 14 (55), pp. 153-173. ISSN 1105-1167.

Watt, Paul (2009) Space, the city and social theory. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33 (3), pp. 880-881. ISSN 0309-1317.

Watt, Paul and Koster, S. (2009) Still wanting to change society? political activism and attitudes of social science students at a new university. In: Young People and Education Seminar, BSA Youth Study Group, 2009, University of Northumbria. (Unpublished)

September 2009

Watt, Paul (2009) Housing stock transfers, regeneration and state-led gentrification in London. Urban Policy and Research 27 (3), pp. 229-242. ISSN 0811-1146.

October 2009

Gunter, A. and Watt, Paul (2009) Grafting, going to college and working on road: youth transitions and cultures in an east London neighbourhood. Journal of Youth Studies 12 (5), pp. 515-529. ISSN 1367-6261.

December 2009

Watt, Paul (2009) Living in an oasis: middle-class disaffiliation and selective belonging in an English suburb. Environment and Planning A 41 (12), pp. 2874-2892. ISSN 0308-518X.

2010

Watt, Paul and Hodkinson, S. (2010) Beyond the fragments? anti-privatisation/anti-gentrification struggles in English urban areas. In: Housing Privatisation Conference, 2010, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul (2010) Elective belonging and selective belonging in a London suburb. In: ISA World Congress of Sociology, 2010, Gothenburg.

Watt, Paul (2010) Focus article: unravelling the narratives and politics of belonging to place. Housing, Theory and Society 27 (2), pp. 153-159. ISSN 1403-6096.

Gunter, A. and Watt, Paul (2010) Grafting, going to college and working on road: youth transitions and cultures in an East London neighbourhood. In: MacDonald, R. and Shildrick, T. and Blackman, S. (eds.) Young People, Class and Place. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 515-529. ISBN 9780415567565.

Watt, Paul (2010) Hands off our homes - again: anti-stock transfer campaigns in the ‘silent’ South East of England. In: Housing Privatisation Conference, 2010, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul (2010) Living in an oasis: middle-class disaffiliation and selective belonging in an English suburb. In: Current Events Lectures in Sociology, Department of Sociology, VU university, Amsterdam. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul (2010) Place belonging in urban and suburban neighbourhoods. In: Georg Simmel Think & Drink Colloquium, 2010, Department of Sociology, Humboldt University, Berlin. (Unpublished)

Watt, Paul (2010) Towards a model of neighbourhood belonging in urban and suburban settings. In: Seminar Series, 2010, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University. (Unpublished)

February 2012

Watt, Paul (2012) Work-life mobility and stability: the employment histories of immigrant workers at a unionized Toronto hotel. Hospitality & Society 1 (2), pp. 117-136. ISSN 2042-7913.

2013

Watt, Paul (2013) "It's not for us": regeneration, the 2012 Olympics and the gentrification of East London. City 17 (1), pp. 99-118. ISSN 1360-4813.

February 2013

Hodkinson, S. and Watt, Paul and Mooney, G. (2013) Introduction: neoliberal housing policy - time for a critical re-appraisal. Critical Social Policy 33 (1), pp. 3-16. ISSN 0261-0183.

2014

Watt, Paul and Smets, P. (2014) Conclusion: mobilities and neighbourhood belonging in cities and suburbs. In: Watt, Paul and Smets, P. (eds.) Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 222-228. ISBN 9781137003621.

Watt, Paul (2014) East London mobilities: the ‘Cockney Diaspora’ and the remaking of the Essex ethnoscape. In: Watt, Paul and Smets, P. (eds.) Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 121-144. ISBN 9781137003621.

Watt, Paul and Smets, P. (2014) Introduction: mobilities and neighbourhood belonging in cities and suburbs. In: Watt, Paul and Smets, P. (eds.) Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-22. ISBN 9781137003621.

Watt, Paul and Smets, P., eds. (2014) Mobilities and neighbourhood belonging in cities and suburbs. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137003621.

April 2016

Watt, Paul and Minton, A. (2016) London’s housing crisis and its activisms. City 20 (2), pp. 204-221. ISSN 1360-4813.

6 April 2016

Watt, Paul (2016) A nomadic war machine in the metropolis: en/countering London’s 21st century housing crisis with Focus E15. City 20 (2), pp. 297-320. ISSN 1360-4813.

15 August 2017

Watt, Paul and Smets, P., eds. (2017) Social housing and urban renewal: a cross-national perspective. Bingley: Emerald Publishing. ISBN 9781787141254.

Watt, Paul (2017) Social housing and urban renewal: an introduction. In: Watt, Paul and Smets, P. (eds.) Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, pp. 1-36. ISBN 9781787141254.

Smets, P. and Watt, Paul (2017) Social housing and urban renewal: conclusion. In: Watt, Paul and Smets, P. (eds.) Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, pp. 459-478. ISBN 9781787141254.

October 2017

Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul (2017) The Rio dossier: the exclusion games. In: Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul (eds.) London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 385-405. ISBN 9781137489463.

14 October 2017

Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul (2017) Conclusion: new directions in Olympic legacy research. In: Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul (eds.) London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 445-453. ISBN 9781137489463.

Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul (2017) Introduction: A hollow crown - Understanding the Olympics in prospect and retrospect. In: Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul (eds.) London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-24. ISBN 9781137489463.

Watt, Paul and Bernstock, P. (2017) Legacy for whom? Housing in post-Olympic East London. In: Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul (eds.) London 2012 and the Post-Olympics City: A Hollow Legacy? London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 91-138. ISBN 9781137489463.

Cohen, Phil and Watt, Paul, eds. (2017) London 2012 and the post-Olympics city: a hollow legacy? London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137489463.

2018

Watt, Paul (2018) ‘This Pain of Moving, Moving, Moving’: evictions, displacement and logics of expulsion in London. L’Année Sociologique 68 (1), pp. 67-100. ISSN 0066-2399.

6 June 2018

Watt, Paul (2018) Gendering the right to housing in the city: homeless female lone parents in post-Olympics, austerity East London. Cities 76 , pp. 43-51. ISSN 0264-2751.

1 October 2018

Gillespie, T. and Hardy, K. and Watt, Paul (2018) Austerity urbanism and Olympic counter-legacies: gendering, defending and expanding the urban commons in East London. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36 (5), pp. 812-830. ISSN 1472-3433.

27 February 2020

Watt, Paul (2020) Territorial stigmatisation and poor housing at a London ‘Sink Estate’. Social Inclusion 8 (1), pp. 20-33. ISSN 2183-2803.

27 August 2020

Watt, Paul (2020) ‘Press-ganged’ Generation Rent: youth homelessness, precarity and poverty in East London. People, Place and Policy 14 (2), pp. 128-141. ISSN 1753-8041.

31 March 2021

Watt, Paul (2021) Estate regeneration and its discontents: public housing, place and inequality in London. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 9781447329190.

October 2021

Gillespie, T. and Hardy, K. and Watt, Paul (2021) Surplus to the city: austerity urbanism, displacement and ‘letting die’. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 53 (7), pp. 1713-1729. ISSN 0308-518X.

2022

Watt, Paul (2022) Displacement and estate demolition: multi-scalar place attachment among relocated social housing residents in London. Housing Studies 37 (9), pp. 1686-1710. ISSN 0267-3037.

11 November 2022

Corcillo, Piero and Watt, Paul (2022) Social mixing or mixophobia in regenerating East London? ‘Affordable housing’, gentrification, stigmatisation and the post-Olympics East Village. People, Place and Policy , pp. 1-19. ISSN 1753-8041.