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 Street // Photo by David Shankbone

The People's Library at Occupy Wall StreettPhoto by David Shankbone

Journal Articles

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).

2018

The Politics of Informality: Methodological Innovations in the Study of Urban Governance.

Studies in Comparative International Development 53/3: 365–378. [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 Change

In 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 Water

Pp. 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

The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street // Photo by David Shankbone

Journal Articles

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).

2018

The Politics of Informality: Methodological Innovations in the Study of Urban Governance.

Studies in Comparative International Development 53/3: 365–378. [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 Change

In 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 Water

Pp. 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

The People's Library at Occupy Wall Street // Photo by David Shankbone

Book Chapters

2024

Collective Consumption and Food System Complexity: Citizen Mobilization, Territorial Rescaling and Transformative Change

In 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 Water

Pp. 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