Professor Sophie Day MA PhD

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Publications and research outputs

Book

Rendering Houses in Ladakh Day, Sophie E.. 2023. Rendering Houses in Ladakh. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781350100114
On the Game: Women and Sex Work Day, Sophie E.. 2007. On the Game: Women and Sex Work. Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745317588
Sex work, Mobility and Health in Europe Day, Sophie E. and Ward, H.. 2004. Sex work, Mobility and Health in Europe. Kegan Paul. ISBN 0710309422

Edited Book

Lilies of the Field: Marginal People Who Live for the Moment, Day, Sophie E.; Papataxiarchis, Evthymios; Stewart, Michael and Papataxiarchis, Akis, eds. 1998. Lilies of the Field: Marginal People Who Live for the Moment,. Westview Press Inc. ISBN 978-0813335315

Edited Journal

Special Issue: Reason and Passion: The Parallel Worlds of Ethnography and Biography Carson, Janet; Day, Sophie E. and Strafford, Charles, eds. 2018. Special Issue: Reason and Passion: The Parallel Worlds of Ethnography and Biography, Social Anthropology, 26(1). 0964-0282

Book Section

Figuring Molecular Relapse in Breast Cancer Medicine Viney, William and Day, Sophie E.. 2022. Figuring Molecular Relapse in Breast Cancer Medicine. In: Celia Lury; William Viney and Scott Wark, eds. Figure: Concept and Method. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 127-148. ISBN 9789811924750
The Gardener and the Walled Garden Day, Sophie E.; Smith, Jayne and Ward, Helen. 2022. The Gardener and the Walled Garden. In: Celia Lury; William Viney and Scott Wark, eds. Figure: Concept and Method. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 149-172. ISBN 9789811924750
Non-married women: life stories from four members of an extended family in and around Leh Day, Sophie E.. 2021. Non-married women: life stories from four members of an extended family in and around Leh. In: Rafal Beszterda; John Bray and Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, eds. New Perspectives on Modern Ladakh: Fresh Discoveries and Continuing Conversations in the Indian Himalaya. Toruń, Poland: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, pp. 95-114. ISBN 9788323147237

Biosensing: Tracking Persons. Day, Sophie E. and Lury, Celia. 2016. Biosensing: Tracking Persons. In: Dawn Nafus, ed. Quantified: Biosensing Technologies in Everyday Life. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, pp. 43-66. ISBN 978-0-262-52875-7
Waiting and the architecture of care Day, Sophie E.. 2015. Waiting and the architecture of care. In: Veena Das and Clara Han, eds. Living and Dying in the Contemporary world: A Compendium. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 167-184. ISBN 9780520278417
Demographies in Flux Day, Sophie E.. 2012. Demographies in Flux. In: R Fardon; J Gledhill; O Harris; T Marchand; M Nuttall; C Shore; V Strang and R Wilson, eds. The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. 2 London: Sage, pp. 2007-2038. ISBN 9781847875471
Ethics between Public and Private: Sex Workers’ Relationships in London Day, Sophie E.. 2010. Ethics between Public and Private: Sex Workers’ Relationships in London. In: M Lambek, ed. Ordinary Ethics: anthropology, language, and action. NY: Fordham University Press, pp. 292-309. ISBN 9780823233175
Visions of Ladakh: Nicola Grist, 19 April 1957 - 26 August 2004 Day, Sophie E.. 2008. Visions of Ladakh: Nicola Grist, 19 April 1957 - 26 August 2004. In: M van Beek and F Pirie, eds. Ladakhi societies: continuity and change in anthropological perspective. 20 Leiden: Brill, pp. 29-40. ISBN 1568-6183
Wolfenden 50: revisiting state policy and the politics of sex work in the UK Day, Sophie E.. 2008. Wolfenden 50: revisiting state policy and the politics of sex work in the UK. In: V Munro and M Della Giusta, eds. The Supply / Demand Dynamic in Prostitution. Rarnham: Ashgate, pp. 51-66. ISBN 978-0-7546-7150-3
'Threading time in the biographies of sex workers' Day, Sophie E.. 2007. 'Threading time in the biographies of sex workers'. In: Janet Carsten, ed. Ghosts of Memory: Essays on Remembrance and Relatedness. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 172-193. ISBN 978-1405154239
'Biological Symptoms of Social Unease: the Stigma of Infertility in London Sex Workers' Day, Sophie E.. 2001. 'Biological Symptoms of Social Unease: the Stigma of Infertility in London Sex Workers'. In: Soraya Tremayne, ed. Managing Reproductive Life: Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality (Fertility, Reproduction, and Sexuality). 1 Oxford & NY: Berghahn Books, pp. 85-103. ISBN 978-1571813176
'The Politics of Risk Among London Prostitutes' Day, Sophie E.. 2000. 'The Politics of Risk Among London Prostitutes'. In: Pat Caplan, ed. Risk Revisited. London: Pluto, pp. 29-59. ISBN 978-0745314631

Article

Reciprocity, moral accounting work and the limitations of the concept of altruism: Motives for participation in a UK epidemiological cohort study Bell, Kirsten; Day, Sophie E.; Elliott, Paul and Ward, Helen. 2025. Reciprocity, moral accounting work and the limitations of the concept of altruism: Motives for participation in a UK epidemiological cohort study. Social Science and Medicine, 387, 118699. ISSN 0277-9536
Digital Valuation: Lessons in relevance from the prototyping of a recommendation app Lury, Celia; Day, Sophie E.; Simon, Andre; Tironi, Martín; Valderrama, Matías and Wark, Scott. 2024. Digital Valuation: Lessons in relevance from the prototyping of a recommendation app. Valuation Studies, 11(1), pp. 38-59. ISSN 2001-5992
Introduction. Political arithmetic: old and new Day, Sophie E.; Lury, Celia and Ward, Helen. 2023. Introduction. Political arithmetic: old and new. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 24(2), pp. 157-166. ISSN 1600-910X

Thesis

Embodying Spirits: Village Oracles and Possession Ritual in Ladakh, North India Day, Sophie E.. 1989. Embodying Spirits: Village Oracles and Possession Ritual in Ladakh, North India. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London