Where possible I have linked to open access versions of the below publications.
(*In a minority of cases, publishers’ requirements mean that I can only link to the accepted manuscript version, and sometimes not at all. But if you want to read something that I have written and can’t access it through the links below, please just send me an email. Don’t pay for it.)
You can get a sense of the reach and influence of my writing (who has cited it and how many times) on Google Scholar.
Journal:
Editor-in-chief for The Journal of Practice Theory.
See editorial introductions and issues of the full open-access journal here.
Books:
Shove E, Blue S, and Kelly M. 2026. Practice Theory and the Biosocial: Microbes, Matter, Milieu. Berghahn. (Publisher’s Website)
Blue, S. 2025. Practice Theory and Process Philosophy: Towards a Sociology of Becoming. Routledge. (Publisher’s Website)
Journal Articles:
Blue S, Shove E, and Kurnicki, K. 2024. ‘Organisational Flexibility: Core Business, Interdependence and the Timing of Energy Demand’. Journal of Organizational Sociology 3 (1): 77-101. https://doi.org/10.1515/joso-2023-0033
Shove E, Blue S, and Kelly M. 2024. ‘Categorising and Cohabiting: Practices as the Site of Biosocial Becoming’. Social Theory and Health 22: 156-171. (Open Access)
Blue S, Forman P, and Shove E. 2021. ‘Flexibilities in Energy Supply and Demand: Legacies and Lessons from the Past’. Journal of Energy History 5: 1-8. (Open Access)
See all papers from this Special Issue here.
Blue S, Shove E, and Kelly M. P. 2021. ‘Obese Societies: Reconceptualising the Challenge for Public Health’. Sociology of Health and Illness 43 (4): 1051-67. (Open Access)
Blue S, Shove E, and Forman P. 2020. ‘Conceptualising Flexibility: Challenging Representations of Time and Society in the Energy Sector’. Time and Society 29 (4): 923-944. (Open Access)
Blue S. 2019. ‘Institutional Rhythms: Combining Practice Theory and Rhythmanalysis to Conceptualise Processes of Institutionalisation’. Time and Society 28 (3): 922-950. (Open Access)
Williams V, Tarleton B, Heslop P, Porter S, Bernd S, Blue S, Merchant W, Mason-Angelow V. 2017. ‘Understanding Disabling Barriers: A Fruitful Partnership between Disability Studies and Social Practices?’ Disability & Society 33 (2): 157-174. (Journal’s Website)
Blue S. 2017. ‘Maintaining Physical Exercise as a Matter of Synchronising Practices’. Health & Place, 46: 344-350. (Journal’s Website) (Accepted Manuscript)
Blue S, Shove E, Carmona C, and Kelly M. P. 2016. ‘Theories of Practice and Public Health: Understanding (Un)Healthy Practices’. Critical Public Health, 26 (1): 36-50. (Open Access)
Blue S. 2013. ‘Ongoing Change in the Rhythms of Mixed Martial Arts Practice’. The International Journal of Sport and Society, 3 (3): 161-170. (Journal’s Website)
Book Chapters:
Blue, S. 2026. ‘Practice Theory and the Biosocial Body’. In E. Shove, C. Maller and S. Cohn (Eds.) Social Practices and Microscopic Matter: Challenging Ideas about Bodies, Microbes and Health. Routledge.
Blue S. 2018. ‘Reducing Demand for Energy in Hospitals: Opportunities for and Limits to Temporal Coordination’. In A. Hui, R. Day and G. Walker (Eds.) Demanding Energy: Space, Time and Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 313-337. (Accepted Manuscript) (Publisher’s Website)
Blue S. 2017. ‘The Sociology of Consumption’. In K.L. Korgen (Ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology: Volume 2: Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies. Cambridge University Press, 265-274. (Open Access) (Publisher’s Website)
Blue S and Spurling N. 2016. ‘Qualities of Connective Tissue in Hospital Life: How Complexes of Practices Change’. In A. Hui, E. Shove and T. Schatzki (Eds.) The Nexus of Practice: Connections, Constellations and Practitioners. Routledge, 24-37. (Accepted Manuscript) (Publisher’s Website)
Blue S and Shove E. 2016. ‘How Social Practices Generate, Carry and Require Knowledge and Know-How’. In K. Orr, S. Nutley, S. Russell, et al. (Eds.) Knowledge and Practice in Business and Organisations. Routledge, 217-219. (Accepted Manuscript) (Publisher’s Website).
In Progress:
The Affective Space of Practices: On a Process-Oriented Practice Theory – paper for a special issue on ‘Un/Drawing Boundaries – Diffracting Contemporary Theories on Practices and Processes’.
Measuring Flexibility: On the Possibilities for a Repetition Index – article w/ Jose Ramirez-Mendiola.
