Diane Davis
Professor of Political Sociology
Head, International Development Group
Room 9-637
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
URL: http://web.mit.edu/dusp/idg/people/faculty/ddavis.html
Email: dedavis@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 617 452-2804
Curriculum Vitae: download PDF
Current Research
Currently pursuing four projects: 1) The co-existence of public vs. private security forces and their impact on quality of urban life and the rule of law. Main countries of interest are Mexico, South Africa and Russia, but is beginning a parallel focus on several U.S. cities; 2) Relations between globalization, urban politics, and the built environment (with a special interest in downtown development and historic preservation); 3) The history and politics of policing in twentieth-century Mexico; and 4) City and countryside in the history and politics of development in Latin America (Mexico, Argentina) and East Asia (South Korea, Taiwan).
Selected Publications
Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Economic Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America. Cambridge University Press. 2004. Best Political Sociology Book of 2005, American Sociological Association.
Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation (edited with Anthony Pereira). Cambridge University Press. (First chapter is available from their website at us.cambridge.org.)
The New Sociological Imagination. Two Volume Special Issue of The International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. Springer Verlag Publishers.
Violence, Coercion, and Rights in Contemporary Latin America (edited with Anthony Pereira). Two Volume Special Issue of Latin American Perspectives. Sage Publications.
Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994; Spanish translation, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1999).
"Urban Violence, Quality of Life, and the Future of Latin American Cities: The Dismal Record So Far, and the Search for New Analytical Frameworks to Sustain the Bias Towards Hope. " In Approaches to Global Urban Poverty: Setting the Research Agenda, Allison Garland (ed.) Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, in press.
The Giuliani Factor: Crime, Zero Tolerance Policing and the Transformation of the Public Sphere in Downtown Mexico City. In Gareth A. Jones, Public Sphere and Public Space in Mexico, forthcoming, Palgrave MacMillan (also to be published in the Revista de Estudios Sociológicos, El Colegio de Mexico, in press).
"Contending Planning Cultures and the Built Environment in Mexico City". In Bishwapriya Sanyal (ed.), Comparative Planning Cultures. New York: Routledge.
"Reverberations: Mexico City's 1985 Earthquake and the Transformation of the Capital." In Lawrence Vale and Tom Campanella (eds.) The Resilient City. Forthcoming.
"The State of the State in Latin American Sociology." In Charles Wood and Bryan Roberts (eds.), Rethinking Development in Latin America. Pennsylvania State Press University.
"Mexico City: The Challenge of Political Transition" (with Arturo Alvarado) in The Left in the City: Progressive and Participatory Local Governance in Latin America, edited by Benjamin Goldfrank and Daniel Chavez. London: Latin America Bureau.Recent Classes
11.194 International Development Toolkit: Transnationalism and Development Fall 09
11.265 The Comparative Politics of Urban Policy
11.470 The Politics of Development Policy Spring
11.488 Urban Development in Conflict Cities Fall
11.489 The Growth and Spatial Structure of Cities Spring
11.A11 I-House Seminar: Topics in International Development Fall 09
Recent Awards
Best Book in Political Sociology, Awarded by the Section on Political Sociology, American Sociological Association, July 2005. Carnegie Scholar (2001-03); John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, Program on Global Security (1998-00); The Ford Foundation (1998); Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (1997).
Additional Information
Acting Director, Program on Human Rights and Justice, Center for International Studies, Academic Year 2003 - 2004.
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