Refereed articles in books by Diane Davis
Utopian ideals have not always been relegated to the sidelines in planning and architectural prac... more Utopian ideals have not always been relegated to the sidelines in planning and architectural practice. In fact, imagining dramatically different alternative futures for cities was once a standard element of planning theory and practice. From Plato and Aristotle's ideal republics to the more recent utopian visions associated with leading voices in western architecture and planning (e.g., ), the imaginative search for novel physical or discursive renderings of a desired state of affairs has persisted throughout the ages. The creative visions emerging from these practices have infl uenced the form and character of contemporary cities, mainly because of their potential for improving the welfare of individuals and communities. The garden city by Ebenezer Howard and Ville radieuse by Le Corbusier are key theoretical examples of the apparently utopian projects 1 that infl uenced twentieth-century architecture and urbanism before falling into disrepute from the late 1950s onward. 2 Despite their defi ning infl uence in the fi eld, charges of authoritarian excess and tensions between advocates of "planning from above" and "planning from below" derailed the creative search for utopia, bringing alternative strategies to the table . In more recent years, citizen participation, communicative practices, and strategies of stakeholder negotiations that recognise the importance of including social groups and non-government organizations in the planning processes have joined the repertoire of planning methodologies. Planners today usually draw on a range of these nowstandardised methods to produce "local knowledge" of the urban experience, a key component in the generation of agreed-upon urban policy outcomes. However, the local knowledge produced through such processes can constrain as well as enable effective planning action, particularly when social and spatial inequalities mediate the urban experience in ways that produce stark divisions over the most appropriate urban policy action. More critically, in the decision to rely on the grounded, everyday experience of citizens as the principal reference point for planning action, many of the imaginative dimensions of planning have disappeared and been
Papers by Diane Davis
El Reajuste Espacial De Estrategias De Seguridad
Gobernando la Ciudad de México.
Muchas ciudades del mundo en desarrollo se han estado enfrentando a una creciente violencia e ins... more Muchas ciudades del mundo en desarrollo se han estado enfrentando a una creciente violencia e inseguridad (Moser, 2004; Rotker, 2002), acontecimientos que son evidentes por el aumento de las tasas de homicidios, robos, asaltos y secuestros, así como en la violencia relacionada con el contrabando (que muchas veces involucra drogas y armas).
The shifting territorial dimensions of crime-fighting : Rescaling state security to the sub-local level in Mexico City
Journal of Planning Education and Research, Apr 20, 2011
Building on Henri Lefebvre's work on the role of imagination in crafting socially just urban cond... more Building on Henri Lefebvre's work on the role of imagination in crafting socially just urban conditions and "rights to the city," this paper asks whether new ideas and urban practices can be produced through the use of experimental visioning techniques. Using empirical evidence drawn from an ideas competition for Jerusalem, one of the world's most intractable conflict cities, the paper considers the extent to which the global call to create alternative visions for a just, peaceful, and sustainable Jerusalem resulted in new strategies considered fundamentally different from those routinely deployed in conventional planning practice, how and why.
Cette recherche a deux objectifs : mieux comprendre la relation entre les milieux informels et la... more Cette recherche a deux objectifs : mieux comprendre la relation entre les milieux informels et la construction de la citoyennete, ainsi que mieux comprendre pourquoi les peurs urbaines continuent de se centrer sur les jeunes malgre la mise en œuvre de programmes de prevention.
Reputational Standing in Academe
The Journal of Higher Education, 1987
Page 1. :№ Diane E. Davis Helen S. Astin Reputational Standing in Academe Because scholarly produ... more Page 1. :№ Diane E. Davis Helen S. Astin Reputational Standing in Academe Because scholarly productivity is central to status attainment in academe [12,20,23,15,1], studies of the determinants of productivity have dominated ...
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2005
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2005
Studies of cities in global context have been around almost as long as scholars have been studyin... more Studies of cities in global context have been around almost as long as scholars have been studying cities (Weber, 1927; Pirenne, 1936). Use of the concept 'global city' did not necessarily figure in the early writings on cities, but international market connections and trade linkages did. In many of these works, physical, social and economic changes in cities were tied to national and international political conditions-ranging from the demise of feudal or absolutist orders (Weber, 1958) to the rise of the modern nationstate (Tilly, 1975; 1990)-as well as the appearance of the social relations of modernity (Durkheim, 1933; Simmel, 1950), which themselves were seen as materializing in cities and reinforcing capitalist development. Still, the concern with economic aspects of urbanization among those who studied cities had its own particular 'geography'. In the United States, most early generations of urban scholars did not emphasize the economic dynamics of urban development to the same degree as did their counterparts in Europe, and they rarely examined cities in global context. This was particularly true during the 1940s and 1950s, when US sociologists became ethnocentrically focused on American urban problems relating to community and culture, neighborhood transformation, and social deviance or disorder. Yet it is precisely the fact that European and American urbanists initially approached the study of cities somewhat differently that helps explain the content, character and assumptions of subsequent research on global cities or cities in global context, both here and abroad.
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2006
Using a sociology of knowledge framing, this essay highlights how and why the sociological imagin... more Using a sociology of knowledge framing, this essay highlights how and why the sociological imagination presented by leading European and American scholars showcased in this special issue offers a relatively hopeful assessment of recent transformations. It then questions the extent to which the same optimism prevails for scholarsand citizensof the poorer, less advanced countries of the world. It not only suggests that many of the fundamental sociological transformations associated with the contemporary eraranging from globalization of economy, the rise of internet technology, the decline of the nation state, and the rise of more cosmopolitan identitiesare unevenly distributed around the world. It also argues that their political, social, and economic impact will vary, depending on history and developmental context. The essay further suggests that precisely because of the statist and protectionist legacies of late development, many of the same transformations that bring positive gains in the advanced capitalist world, signal troubles ahead for the developing world and its future. The essay draws to a close with a more focused examination of the dark side of recent transformations, evident in such problems as unchecked violence and regional or ethnic fragmentation across major swathes of the global south. Such developments, the essay concludes, should sustain the call for a more "pluralist" sociological imagination for the new millennium, one that can take into account differences within and between various countries around the globe, while also advancing our normative understanding of what it would take to make "global society" possible.
Mauro F. Guillen, The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain :The Limits of Convergence: Globalization and Organizational Change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2003
... embeddedness by Peter Evans.1 Longstanding research by Alice Amsden on how firms learn and in... more ... embeddedness by Peter Evans.1 Longstanding research by Alice Amsden on how firms learn and innovate in a competitive global environment has also advanced our understanding of the link between businesses and development.2 But what distinguishes Guillén's work from ...
Non-State Armed Actors, New Imagined Communities, and Shifting Patterns of Sovereignty and Insecurity in the Modern World
Contemporary Security Policy, 2009
... Enrique Desmond Arias, Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks ..... more ... Enrique Desmond Arias, Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks ... military, paramilitary, and police tended to monopolize the means of violence, using repressive ... against rebellious citizens identified with warlike terminology as 'enemies of the state'. ...
Non-state armed actors, new imagined communities, and shifting patterns of sovereignty and insecurity in the modern world
Contemporary Security Policy, 2009
... Enrique Desmond Arias, Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks ..... more ... Enrique Desmond Arias, Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks ... military, paramilitary, and police tended to monopolize the means of violence, using repressive ... against rebellious citizens identified with warlike terminology as 'enemies of the state'. ...
The British Journal of Sociology, 2009
Rob Sampson's "Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City" establishes two very critical po... more Rob Sampson's "Disparity and Diversity in the Contemporary City" establishes two very critical points for sociologists generally, and for scholars of the city in particular. First and foremost, it highlights the importance of individual perception, a form of cognitive processing, as a key determinant in social outcomes. While not entirely new, this claim is in need of serious reconsideration and further discussion in sociology today. Second and most innovatively, if not importantly, Sampson introduces a concern with perception into studies of the city and applies it to the phenomenon of segregation, both income and racebased. By so doing, he extends the role of perception and cognition beyond the domain of subjective urban experience, a subarea of study already well-developed in the work of the urban sociologist Claude Fischer. Sampson argues provocatively that perceptions of social disorder are central to the reproduction of neighborhood composition and urban socio-spatial form. Above and beyond his fascinating findings about the race-linked interpretive biases that drive individuals to perceive greater social disorder in certain neighborhoods than actual empirical evidence would dictate, Sampson's research will bring the discipline of urban sociology more in line with recent innovations in brain and cognitive science that are changing the way many established fields are coming to understand individual thought and behavior.
Comparative Studies in …, 1997
Since Robert Dahl's seminal writings on democracy more than two decades ago, interest in the topi... more Since Robert Dahl's seminal writings on democracy more than two decades ago, interest in the topic has emerged again, especially among scholars analyzing democratic transitions. Great strides have been made in revealing the uncertain nature of these transitions (O'
International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2005
Studies of cities in global context have been around almost as long as scholars have been studyin... more Studies of cities in global context have been around almost as long as scholars have been studying cities (Weber, 1927; Pirenne, 1936). Use of the concept 'global city' did not necessarily figure in the early writings on cities, but international market connections and trade linkages did. In many of these works, physical, social and economic changes in cities were tied to national and international political conditions-ranging from the demise of feudal or absolutist orders (Weber, 1958) to the rise of the modern nationstate (Tilly, 1975; 1990)-as well as the appearance of the social relations of modernity (Durkheim, 1933; Simmel, 1950), which themselves were seen as materializing in cities and reinforcing capitalist development. Still, the concern with economic aspects of urbanization among those who studied cities had its own particular 'geography'. In the United States, most early generations of urban scholars did not emphasize the economic dynamics of urban development to the same degree as did their counterparts in Europe, and they rarely examined cities in global context. This was particularly true during the 1940s and 1950s, when US sociologists became ethnocentrically focused on American urban problems relating to community and culture, neighborhood transformation, and social deviance or disorder. Yet it is precisely the fact that European and American urbanists initially approached the study of cities somewhat differently that helps explain the content, character and assumptions of subsequent research on global cities or cities in global context, both here and abroad.
The Sociology of Mexico: Stalking The Path Not Taken
Annual Review of Sociology, 1992
Why did dependency theory fail to take strong root among sociologists of Mexico over the sixties ... more Why did dependency theory fail to take strong root among sociologists of Mexico over the sixties and seventies; and why, in contrast, did Mexico’s sociologists tend to study social movements and the state instead? Using these questions as a starting point, this paper examines the divergent paths of research on Mexico taken by both North American and Mexican sociologists over the past several decades. In seeking the origins of these unique patterns, the paper assesses the nation’s revolutionary history, the institutional training of Mexican and North American sociologists, the corporativist and collectivist structure of politics and society, the social and political activism of Mexican sociologists, and the ruling party’s appropriation of dependency rhetorics for its own political purposes. These unique legacies, in combination with Mexico’s history of rapid and concentrated urbanization, are then examined with respect to their impact on recent and forthcoming research. Among the hig...
International Journal of Urban and …, 2005
The power of distance: re-theorizing social movements in Latin America
Theory and Society, 1999
... on culture, meaning, and identity into one manageable framework.24 These e¡orts and the empir... more ... on culture, meaning, and identity into one manageable framework.24 These e¡orts and the empirical works of those who emphasize both identities and political institutions in their studies of social movements have taken us far in avoiding the polariz-ing con£ict that now ...
Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. By Xuefei Ren. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Pp. xvi+218. $30.00 (paper)
American Journal of Sociology, 2011
Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism. By Sarah Babb. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xv+295
American Journal of Sociology, 2004
.anaging Mexico ECONOMISTS H<OM VUIONAIISM IONKOI IHIK M.ISM Simih Bab Just one generation ago... more .anaging Mexico ECONOMISTS H<OM VUIONAIISM IONKOI IHIK M.ISM Simih Bab Just one generation ago, lawyers domi- nated Mexico's political elite, and Mexi- can economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nationalists. Today, in contrast, the country is ...
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