Diane E. Davis
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Scale, Space, and Governance
Examination of inter- and intra-urbanization patterns and their relationship to the political economy of urban and national development

The People's Library at Occupy Wall StreettPhoto by David Shankbone
Journal Articles
2020
City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in the Global SouthUrban Planning, vol. 5, issue 3: 1–12. [referred]
2020
Implementing a Progressive Urban Agenda through Innovations in the Design of Social Housing: Scalar Mismatches (with Maria Atuesta)
Planning Theory and Practice (August 2020).
2019
Collective Property Rights and Social Citizenship: Recent Trends in Latin America” (with José Carlos Fernández Salas)Social Policy and Society Vol. 19, Issue 2: 319–330.
2018
The Politics of Informality: Methodological Innovations in the Study of Urban Governance.Studies in Comparative International Development 53/3: 365–378. [referred]
2017
Expanding the Scope of Sustainability Planning: Lessons from Stockholm’s Congestion Charging Policy (with Amy Rader Olsson)Urban Planning (Volume 2, Issue 4): 81–92. [referred]
1999
The Power of Distance: Rethinking Social Movements in Latin America
Theory and Society, vol. 24 no. 4 (August): 589–643.
Book Chapters
2024
Collective Consumption and Food System Complexity: Citizen Mobilization, Territorial Rescaling and Transformative ChangeIn Gerardo del Cerro (ed.), From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinary: Exploring Resilience, Sustainability and Knowledge Integration. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
2024
Boundary-work in Theory and Practice; The Need for Design Innovations to Counter the Rigidities of Conventional Social, Spatial, and Landscape Approaches to WaterPp. 30–35 in Lorena Bello Gomez (ed.), Agua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano. Harvard Graduate School of Design.
2024
Shifting Geographies of Activism and the Spatial Logics of Latin American Social Movements (with Taylor Davey)
Chapter 40 in The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, edited by Fernando Rossi. Oxford University Press.
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Diane E. Davis
About
Contact
Research /
Scale, Space, and Governance
Examination of inter- and intra-urbanization patterns and their relationship to the political economy of urban and national development

The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street // Photo by David Shankbone
Journal Articles
2020
City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in the Global SouthUrban Planning, vol. 5, issue 3: 1–12. [referred]
2020
Implementing a Progressive Urban Agenda through Innovations in the Design of Social Housing: Scalar Mismatches (with Maria Atuesta)
Planning Theory and Practice (August 2020).
2019
Collective Property Rights and Social Citizenship: Recent Trends in Latin America” (with José Carlos Fernández Salas)Social Policy and Society Vol. 19, Issue 2: 319–330.
2018
The Politics of Informality: Methodological Innovations in the Study of Urban Governance.Studies in Comparative International Development 53/3: 365–378. [referred]
2017
Expanding the Scope of Sustainability Planning: Lessons from Stockholm’s Congestion Charging Policy (with Amy Rader Olsson)Urban Planning (Volume 2, Issue 4): 81–92. [referred]
1999
The Power of Distance: Rethinking Social Movements in Latin America
Theory and Society, vol. 24 no. 4 (August): 589–643.
Book Chapters
2024
Collective Consumption and Food System Complexity: Citizen Mobilization, Territorial Rescaling and Transformative ChangeIn Gerardo del Cerro (ed.), From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinary: Exploring Resilience, Sustainability and Knowledge Integration. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
2024
Boundary-work in Theory and Practice; The Need for Design Innovations to Counter the Rigidities of Conventional Social, Spatial, and Landscape Approaches to WaterPp. 30–35 in Lorena Bello Gomez (ed.), Agua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano. Harvard Graduate School of Design.
2024
Shifting Geographies of Activism and the Spatial Logics of Latin American Social Movements (with Taylor Davey)
Chapter 40 in The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, edited by Fernando Rossi. Oxford University Press.
© Copyright 2026. All rights reserved.
Designed by Adi Meira
Diane E. Davis
About
Contact
Research /
Scale, Space, and Governance
Study of power relations within and between social classes and the state, with a focus on how these dynamics take shape territorially

The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street // Photo by David Shankbone
Journal Articles
2020
City, Nation, Network: Shifting Territorialities of Sovereignty and Urban Violence in the Global SouthUrban Planning, vol. 5, issue 3: 1–12. [referred]
2020
Implementing a Progressive Urban Agenda through Innovations in the Design of Social Housing: Scalar Mismatches (with Maria Atuesta)
Planning Theory and Practice (August 2020).
2019
Collective Property Rights and Social Citizenship: Recent Trends in Latin America” (with José Carlos Fernández Salas)Social Policy and Society Vol. 19, Issue 2: 319–330.
2018
The Politics of Informality: Methodological Innovations in the Study of Urban Governance.Studies in Comparative International Development 53/3: 365–378. [referred]
2017
Expanding the Scope of Sustainability Planning: Lessons from Stockholm’s Congestion Charging Policy (with Amy Rader Olsson)
Urban Planning (Volume 2, Issue 4): 81–92. [referred]
1999
The Power of Distance: Re-Theorizing Social Movements in Latin AmericaTheory and Society, vol. 24 no. 4 (August): 589–643.
Book Chapters
2024
Collective Consumption and Food System Complexity: Citizen Mobilization, Territorial Rescaling and Transformative ChangeIn Gerardo del Cerro (ed.), From Complex Systems to Transdisciplinary: Exploring Resilience, Sustainability and Knowledge Integration. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
2024
Boundary-work in Theory and Practice; The Need for Design Innovations to Counter the Rigidities of Conventional Social, Spatial, and Landscape Approaches to WaterPp. 30–35 in Lorena Bello Gomez (ed.), Agua Incognita I, II: Deciphering and Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano. Harvard Graduate School of Design.
2022
Shifting Geographies of Activism and the Spatial Logics of Latin American Social Movements (with Taylor Davey)
Chapter 40 in The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Social Movements, edited by Fernando Rossi. Oxford University Press.
© Copyright 2026. All rights reserved.
Designed by Adi Meira