Steve Pile

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Steve Pile is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Sociology and Political Science and Urban Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Steve Pile has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 10 papers in Urban Studies. Recurrent topics in Steve Pile's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (18 papers), Religious Tourism and Spaces (7 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (7 papers). Steve Pile is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (18 papers), Religious Tourism and Spaces (7 papers) and Urban Planning and Governance (7 papers). Steve Pile collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Hong Kong and United States. Steve Pile's co-authors include Nigel Thrift, Kay Anderson, Mona Domosh, Nadia Bartolini, Sara MacKian, Gillian Rose, Paul Kingsbury, Brandon LaBelle, Jane Rendell and Doreen Massey and has published in prestigious journals such as Urban Studies, Progress in Human Geography and Sociology.

In The Last Decade

Steve Pile

52 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Emotions and affect in recent human geography 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Emotions and affect in recent human geography
    2009 618 citations Steve Pile Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steve Pile United Kingdom 15 931 860 288 218 199 57 2.0k
Robyn Longhurst New Zealand 28 1.6k 1.7× 841 1.0× 260 0.9× 185 0.8× 118 0.6× 66 2.9k
Hayden Lorimer United Kingdom 23 918 1.0× 1.5k 1.7× 260 0.9× 269 1.2× 164 0.8× 45 2.5k
Divya P. Tolia‐Kelly United Kingdom 22 934 1.0× 743 0.9× 200 0.7× 139 0.6× 247 1.2× 38 1.8k
Catherine Nash United Kingdom 20 811 0.9× 642 0.7× 166 0.6× 152 0.7× 216 1.1× 49 1.7k
John Wylie United Kingdom 16 757 0.8× 1.6k 1.9× 229 0.8× 298 1.4× 225 1.1× 29 2.3k
Marc Augé France 18 1.1k 1.2× 332 0.4× 403 1.4× 262 1.2× 264 1.3× 124 2.6k
Sarah Wright Australia 25 926 1.0× 688 0.8× 101 0.4× 216 1.0× 232 1.2× 75 2.2k
Kay Anderson Australia 18 692 0.7× 541 0.6× 222 0.8× 97 0.4× 151 0.8× 54 1.6k
Alastair Bonnett United Kingdom 23 1.1k 1.2× 375 0.4× 209 0.7× 107 0.5× 99 0.5× 79 1.8k
David Matless United Kingdom 22 754 0.8× 905 1.1× 260 0.9× 137 0.6× 170 0.9× 63 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Steve Pile

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steve Pile

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steve Pile

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steve Pile. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steve Pile based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Steve Pile. Steve Pile is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Murji, Karim, et al.. (2026). What’s in a hyphen? Insights from the field on co-production as methodology. Social & Cultural Geography. 1–19.
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Murji, Karim, et al.. (2025). Eyre and Eton in Camden: Uncovering the Colonial Histories of Three North London Housing Estates. The London Journal. 51(1). 89–110.
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Murji, Karim, et al.. (2023). ‘London is avocado on toast’: The urban imaginaries of the #LondonIsOpen campaign. Urban Studies. 60(12). 2418–2435. 6 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve, et al.. (2023). A progressive sense of place and the open city: Micro-spatialities and micro-conflicts on a north London council estate. Geoforum. 144. 103810–103810. 3 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (2022). Learning from Stoke‐on‐Trent: Multiple ontologies, ontological alterity and the city. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 48(1). 149–164. 2 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (2021). Bodies, Affects, Politics. 4 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (2018). Affect and ideology: The political stake of desire. Emotion, space and society. 31. 108–111. 6 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (2013). 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). 224–236. 9 indexed citations
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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). 57–81. 6 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (2010). Intimate Distance: The Unconscious Dimensions of the Rapport Between Researcher and Researched. The Professional Geographer. 62(4). 483–495. 18 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (2009). Emotions and affect in recent human geography. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 35(1). 5–20. 618 indexed citations breakdown →
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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). 305–318. 18 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (2005). cultural geographies in practice. Cultural Geographies. 12(4). 521–526. 2 indexed citations
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LaBelle, Brandon, et al.. (2005). Exploring ‘an area of outstanding unnatural beauty’: a treasure hunt around King’s Cross, London. Cultural Geographies. 12(4). 429–462. 14 indexed citations
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Anderson, Kay, Mona Domosh, Steve Pile, & Nigel Thrift. (2003). Handbook of Cultural Geography. Open Research Online (The Open University). 196 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve & Nigel Thrift. (2000). City A-Z. Routledge eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (1996). The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, subjectivity and space. Open Research Online (The Open University). 11 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (1996). The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity. E-Artexte (Artexte). 200 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (1996). Mapping the subject: geographies of cultural transformation. Choice Reviews Online. 33(9). 33–5245. 297 indexed citations
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Pile, Steve. (1991). Securing the Future: `Survival Strategies' amongst Somerset Dairy Farmers. Sociology. 25(2). 255–274. 10 indexed citations

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