Publications

Selected Publications in English

Edited Volumes

Berking, Helmuth/ Schwenk, Jochen/ Steets, Silke (eds.) (2018): Religious Pluralism and the City: Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism. London/New York, Bloomsbury.

Grubbauer, Monika/ Steets, Silke (eds) (2014):
The Making of Architects. Knowledge Production and Legitimation in Educational and Professional Practice. Special Issue. Architectural Theory Review 19 (1).

Frank, Sybille/ Steets, Silke (eds) (2010):
Stadium Worlds – Football, Space and the Built Environment. London/ New York, Routledge.

Berking, Helmuth/ Frank, Sybille/ Frers, Lars/ Löw, Martina/ Meier, Lars/ Steets, Silke/ Stoetzer, Sergej (eds) (2006):
Negotiating Urban Conflicts. Interaction, Space and Control. Bielefeld, transcript.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Steets, Silke (2022): Epilogue: Spatializing Cities, Exploring Urban Religion, Re-Imagining Urbanity. In: Space und Culture. Open Access & Online first.

Steets, Silke (2022): »This Is Not Just a Story About New York« – Refiguring Spaces through Innovation. In: Sociologica. International Journal for Sociological Debate 16(2). Open Access: https://sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/15456.

Knoblauch, Hubert / Steets, Silke (2022): »Here Is Looking at You«: Relational Phenomenology and the Problem of Mutual Gaze. In: Studia Phaenomenologica XXII. Gestures. S. 125–144. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5840/studphaen2022227.

Antony, Alexander/ Steets, Silke /Pfadenhauer, Michaela (2022):
Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise – A Processual Account. In: Symbolic Interaction. Online first. Open Access.

Knoblauch, Hubert/ Steets, Silke (2022):
From the Constitution to the Communicative Construction of Space. In: Christmann, Gabriela B./ Knoblauch, Hubert/ Löw, Martina (Des.): Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces. Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies. London/New York, Routledge. pp. 19–35. Open Access.

Steets, Silke (2020):
Games as Provinces of Meaning. In: Andri Gerber/ Ulrich Götz (Eds.), Architectonics of Game Spaces (85-94). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839448021-006

Steets, Silke (2018):
The Reality of Material Objectivations: On Dwelling as a Mode of Internalization. In: Michaela Pfadenhauer/ Hubert Knoblauch (eds.), Social Constructivism as Paradigm: The Legacy of The Social Construction of Reality. London/ New York, Routledge. S. 75–90.

Knoblauch, Hubert/ Steets, Silke (2018):
Sacred Canopies and Invisible Religions: The Dialectical Construction of Religion in Berger and Luckmann. In: Hjelm, Titus (Ed.): Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years After The Sacred Canopy. London/New York, Bloomsbury, pp. 85–101.

Silke Steets (2017): Seductive Atmospheres, Conflicting Symbols: Religious Landmark Buildings in Diverse Societies. In: Eurostudia – Revue Transatlantique de Recherche sur l’Europe 12 (1), pp. 125–135 Open Access.

Steets, Silke (2016):
Playing Chamber Music at a Rock Festival? – The Social Construction of Reality in US Sociology. In: Human Studies 39 (1), 71–91.

Steets, Silke (2016):
What Makes People Tick? What Makes a Society Tick? And Is a Theory Useful for Understanding?: An Interview with Peter L. Berger. In: Human Studies ​39 (1), 7–25.

Steets, Silke (2016):
Taking Berger and Luckmann to the Realm of Materiality: Architecture as a Social Construction. In: Cultural Sociology 10 (1), 93–108.

Löw, Martina/ Steets, Silke (2014):
The Spatial Turn and the Built Environment. In: Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis/ Sokratis Koniordos (eds) Handbook of European Sociology. London/ New York, Routledge, 211–224.

Steets, Silke (2014):
Multiple Realities and Religion. A Sociological Approach. In: Society 51 (2), 140–144.

Frank, Sybille/ Steets, Silke (2010):
Introduction: Football, Space, and the Built Environment, in: Sybille Frank and Silke Steets (eds): Stadium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment. London/New York: Routledge, 1–16.

Frank, Sybille/ Steets, Silke (2010):
Conclusion: The Stadium – Lens and Refuge, in: Sybille Frank and Silke Steets (eds): Sta¬dium Worlds: Football, Space and the Built Environment. London/New York: Routledge, 178–294.

Heinecke, Katja/Krehl, Reinhard/ Steets, Silke (2010):
Life with Walter: Living in the Bauhaus Törten Estate, in: Generalist 3, 50–54.

Steets, Silke (2006):
Orbit Palace. Locations and Cultures of Redundant Time, in: Helmuth Berking/ Sybille Frank u.a. (eds), Negotiating Urban Conflicts. Interaction, Space and Control. Bielefeld, transcript, 235–246.

Lange, Bastian/ Steets, Silke (2001):
Cool Frankfurt. Emplacement Strategies of ›New Entrepreneurs‹, in: Regina Bittner (Ed.), Die Stadt als Event (The City as Event). Frankfurt a. M./ New York, Campus, 487–501.

Reviews

Steets, Silke (2014):
Lukasz Stanek 2011: Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38, 1123-1124.