Diane E. Davis
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Cities and Sovereignties
Examination of inter- and intra-urbanization patterns and their relationship to the political economy of urban and national development
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2025
Deconstructing Sovereignty: Bare life, Territorial Power, and the Everyday Ecologies of Illiberal Governance (with Frank I. Müller)Territory, Politics, and Governance vol. 13 no. 6: 775–772.
2022
The Pandemic and Organized Crime in Urban Latin America: New Sovereignty Arrangements or Business as Usual? (with Tina Hilgers)Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, vol. 43 (3): 241–256. [referred]
2020
City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in the Global SouthUrban Planning, vol. 5, issue 3: 1–12. [referred]
2010
Irregular Armed Forces, Shifting Patterns of Commitment, and Fragmented Sovereignty in the Developing WorldTheory and Society, Volume 39 Issue 3: 397–413.
2009
Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern WorldContemporary Security Policy vol. 30 no. 2 (August): 221–245.
Book Chapters
2022
Rethinking Urban Publics through the Lens of Sovereignty: Material and Political Assemblages of Inclusive UrbanismPp. 87–104 in Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija, and Kian Goh (eds.), Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City. Cambridge: MIT Press
2020
Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict CitiesPp. 172–200 in Simon Goldhill (ed.), Being Urban: Community, Conflict, and Belonging in the Middle East. London and New York: Routledge. [referred]
2017
Violence, Fragmented Sovereignty, and Declining State Capacity: Rethinking the Legacies of Developmental Statism in MexicoIn Miguel Centeno, Atul Kohli, and Deborah Yashar (eds.), State Building in the Developing World. Cambridge University Press.
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Diane E. Davis
About
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Research /
Cities and Sovereignties
Examination of inter- and intra-urbanization patterns and their relationship to the political economy of urban and national development
Photo by Getty Images
2025
Deconstructing Sovereignty: Bare life, Territorial Power, and the Everyday Ecologies of Illiberal Governance (with Frank I. Müller)Territory, Politics, and Governance vol. 13 no. 6: 775–772.
2022
The Pandemic and Organized Crime in Urban Latin America: New Sovereignty Arrangements or Business as Usual? (with Tina Hilgers)Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, vol. 43 (3): 241–256. [referred]
2020
City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in the Global SouthUrban Planning, vol. 5, issue 3: 1–12. [referred]
2010
Irregular Armed Forces, Shifting Patterns of Commitment, and Fragmented Sovereignty in the Developing WorldTheory and Society, Volume 39 Issue 3: 397–413.
2009
Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern WorldContemporary Security Policy vol. 30 no. 2 (August): 221–245.
Book Chapters
2022
Rethinking Urban Publics through the Lens of Sovereignty: Material and Political Assemblages of Inclusive UrbanismPp. 87–104 in Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija, and Kian Goh (eds.), Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City. Cambridge: MIT Press
2020
Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict CitiesPp. 172–200 in Simon Goldhill (ed.), Being Urban: Community, Conflict, and Belonging in the Middle East. London and New York: Routledge. [referred]
2017
Violence, Fragmented Sovereignty, and Declining State Capacity: Rethinking the Legacies of Developmental Statism in MexicoIn Miguel Centeno, Atul Kohli, and Deborah Yashar (eds.), State Building in the Developing World. Cambridge University Press.
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Diane E. Davis
About
Contact
Research /
Cities and Sovereignties
Challenging assumptions and scales of sovereign power—shifting the lens from the nation to the urban, and from the legal to the illegal
Photo by Getty Images
2025
Deconstructing Sovereignty: Bare life, Territorial Power, and the Everyday Ecologies of Illiberal Governance (with Frank I. Müller)Territory, Politics, and Governance vol. 13 no. 6: 775–772.
2022
The Pandemic and Organized Crime in Urban Latin America: New Sovereignty Arrangements or Business as Usual? (with Tina Hilgers)Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, vol. 43 (3): 241–256. [referred]
2020
City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in the Global SouthUrban Planning, vol. 5, issue 3: 1–12. [referred]
2010
Irregular Armed Forces, Shifting Patterns of Commitment, and Fragmented Sovereignty in the Developing WorldTheory and Society, Volume 39 Issue 3: 397–413.
2009
Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern WorldContemporary Security Policy vol. 30 no. 2 (August): 221–245.
Book Chapters
2022
Rethinking Urban Publics through the Lens of Sovereignty: Material and Political Assemblages of Inclusive UrbanismPp. 87–104 in Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija, and Kian Goh (eds.), Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City. Cambridge: MIT Press
2020
Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict CitiesPp. 172–200 in Simon Goldhill (ed.), Being Urban: Community, Conflict, and Belonging in the Middle East. London and New York: Routledge. [referred]
2017
Violence, Fragmented Sovereignty, and Declining State Capacity: Rethinking the Legacies of Developmental Statism in MexicoIn Miguel Centeno, Atul Kohli, and Deborah Yashar (eds.), State Building in the Developing World. Cambridge University Press.
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