Social Theory

Fox, N.J. (2025) Vital materialism from social theory to sociological lines of flight. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 16(0): 80-97. https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2025.00.07

Fox, N.J. (2023). Capitalism and the state: A new materialist perspective. European Journal of Social Theory, 28(1): 126-148. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13684310231204540

Fox, N.J. (2023). The more-than-human life of capitalism: assemblages, affects and the neoliberal black hole. Social Sciences, 12(11), 632. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12110632

Fox, N.J. (2023). Rhizomatic review: A materialist minor science approach to research evaluation. Qualitative Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941231216632

Fox, N. J. and Alldred, P. (2023). Applied research, diffractive methodology and the research assemblage: challenges and opportunities. Sociological Research Online, 28(1), 93–109. (First published 19 July 2021)

Fox, N.J. (2022). The critical (micro)political economy of health: A more-than-human approach. Health. 28(1): 22-39.

Fox, N. J. and Alldred, P. (2020). Sustainability, feminist posthumanism and the unusual capacities of (post)humans. Environmental Sociology, 6(2), 121-131.

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2020) Re-assembling climate change policy: materialism, micropolitics and the policy assemblage. British Journal of Sociology, 71(2), 269-283 .

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2020) New materialism. In: Atkinson, P.A., Williams, R., Cernat, A. and Sakshaug, J.W. (eds.) The SAGE Research Methods Foundation. London: Sage.

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2019) The materiality of memory; affects, remembering and food decisions. Cultural Sociology, 13(1): 20-36

Alldred, P. and Fox, N.J. (2019) Assembling citizenship: sexualities education, micropolitics and the becoming-citizen. Sociology 53(4): 689–706.

Alldred P. and Fox, N.J. (2019) Sexualities education and sexual citizenship: a materialist approach. In: Aggleton, P., Prankumar, S.K., Cover, R., Leahy, D., Marshall, D. and Rasmussen, M.L. (eds.) Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship. London: Routledge.

Fox, N.J. (2018) Reconceptualising bodies. In: Scambler, G. (ed.) Sociology Applied to Health and Medicine 7^th Edition, pp. 263-276. London: Palgrave.

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2018). Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology: (new) materialist insights. Journal of Sociology, 54(3): 315–330.

Fox, N.J. and Alldred, P. (2017) Sociology and the New Materialism. London: Sage.

Alldred, P. and Fox, N.J. (2017) Young bodies, power and resistance: a new materialist perspective. Journal of Youth Studies, 20(9): 1161-1175.

Fox, N.J. (2016) Health sociology from post-structuralism to the new materialisms. Health, 20(1): 62-74.

Fox, N.J. (2015) Creativity, anti-humanism and the ‘new sociology of art’. Journal of Sociology. 51((3):522-536.

Fox, N.J. (2015) Emotions, affects and the production of social life. British Journal of Sociology. 66(2): 301-318.

Fox, N.J. (2014) Post-structuralism and postmodernism. In: Cockerham, W.C., Dingwall, R. and Quah, S.R. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior and Society. Chichester: Wiley.