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Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2025). Into our labours: Work and its representation in world-literary perspective. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, doi: 10.1080/17449855.2025.2452983

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2024). The infrastructure humanities. Interventions, 26(8), pp. 1326-1342. doi: 10.1080/1369801x.2024.2400351

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2023). The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (Introduction). In: The Broken Promise of Infrastructure. (pp. 9-28). Chadwell Heath, UK: Lawrence and Wishart.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2023). Graphic Capitaloscenes: Drawing Infrastructure as Historical Form. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 65(4), pp. 680-695. doi: 10.1080/00111619.2023.2231845

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2023). Intolerable fictions. In: Kauranen, R., Löytty, O., Nikkilä, A. & Vuorinne, A.view all authors (Eds.), Comics and Migration: Representation and Other Practices. . Routledge India. doi: 10.4324/9781003254621-18

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2022). The City of the Missing: Poetic Responses to the Grenfell Fire. Journal of Urban History, 49(3), doi: 10.1177/00961442221127310

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2022). Infrastructural Forms: Comics, Cities, Conglomerations. In: The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. (pp. 163-176). London, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003124931-14

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2022). Green unpleasant land: Creative responses to rural England's colonial connections. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 58(2), pp. 286-287. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2022.2066520

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2022). All that is solid falls from the sky: Modernity and the volume of world literature. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 9(1), pp. 1-25. doi: 10.1017/pli.2021.33

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2022). "The Gutters of History" Geopolitical Pasts and Imperial Presents in Recent Graphic Nonfiction. In: Alexander, D. L., Goodrum, M. & Smith, P. (Eds.), Drawing the past. (pp. 56-78). University Press of Mississippi.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2021). Witnesses, graphic storytellers, activists: an interview with the KADAK collective. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 12(6), pp. 1399-1409. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2021.2017310

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2021). Terrestrial Realism and the Gravity of World Literature: Joe Sacco’s Seismic Lines. The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 8(3), pp. 301-322. doi: 10.1017/pli.2021.18

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2021). Against the System: Postcolonialism, Humanism, and the Humanities. Moving Worlds: a journal for transcultural writings, 20(2), pp. 113-128.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2021). Terrestrial Humanism and the Weight of World Literature: Reading Esi Edugyan’s Washington Black. The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 8(1), pp. 1-23. doi: 10.1017/pli.2020.23

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2020). Unsettling Frontiers: Property, Empire, and Race in Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams. Critique - Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 63(4), pp. 385-400. doi: 10.1080/00111619.2020.1841724

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2020). Concrete stories, decomposing fictions: Body parts and body politics in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad. Interventions, 23(6), pp. 922-940. doi: 10.1080/1369801x.2020.1816851

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2020). Dreamlands, Border Zones, and Spaces of Exception: Comics and Graphic Narratives on the US-Mexico Border. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 35(2), pp. 383-403. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1741187

Menga, F. & Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2019). Apocalypse yesterday: Posthumanism and comics in the Anthropocene. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 3(3), pp. 663-687. doi: 10.1177/2514848619883468

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2019). Braided geographies: bordered forms and cross-border formations in refugee comics. Journal for Cultural Research, 23(2), pp. 124-143. doi: 10.1080/14797585.2019.1665892

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2019). Editor’s note. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(5), pp. 585-588. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2019.1657696

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2019). Rudyard Kipling and the networks of empire. In: Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives. (pp. 192-210). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429283857

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2019). Introduction: Documenting Trauma in Comics. In: Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 & Rifkind, C. (Eds.), Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. (pp. 1-26). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2019). Graphic Katrina: Disaster Capitalism, Tourism Gentrification and the Affect Economy in Josh Neufelds's A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (2009). Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 11(3), pp. 325-340. doi: 10.1080/21504857.2019.1575256

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2019). Infrastructural Violence. In: Hague, I., Horton, I. & Mickwitz, N. (Eds.), Contexts of Violence in Comics. . Abingdon, Oxford: Routledge.

Boehmer, E. & Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2018). Introduction: The City Always Wins. In: Boehmer, E. & Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (Eds.), Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture. (pp. 1-25). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Boehmer, E. & Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2018). Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature, and Culture. In: Boehmer, E. & Davies, D. (Eds.), Planned Violence. (pp. 1-25). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2018). Literary Non-Fiction and the Neoliberal City: Subalternity and Urban Governance in Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(1), pp. 94-107. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2018.1496468

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2018). Performing Urban Violence: Protest Theatre and Semi-Public Space in London and Cape Town. Theatre Topics, 28(2), pp. 89-100. doi: 10.1353/tt.2018.0018

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2018). Urban comix: Subcultures, infrastructures and “the right to the city” in Delhi. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54(3), pp. 411-430. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2018.1461986

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 & Boehmer, E. (2018). Postcolonialism and South-South Relations. In: Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E. & Daley, P. (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of South-South Relations. . Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2017). ‘Comics on the Main Street of Culture’: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell (1999), Laura Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah (2011) and the politics of gentrification. Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 4(3), pp. 333-360. doi: 10.1386/jucs.4.3.333_1

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2017). A Review of Threadbare: Clothes, Sex and Trafficking. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 7, article number 7. doi: 10.16995/cg.110

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2017). Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930. In: Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (Ed.), Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930. Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century. (pp. 1-55). Oxford: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2017). Comics Activism: An Interview with Comics Artist Kate Evans. The Comics Grid : Journal of Comics Scholarship, 7(1), article number 18. doi: 10.16995/cg.114

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2017). From Communism to Postcapitalism: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto (1848). In: Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789, Lombard, E. & Mountford, B. (Eds.), Fighting Words Fourteen Books That Shaped the Postcolonial World. Race and Resistance Across Borders in the Long Twentieth Century. (pp. 27-42). Oxford: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers.

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2017). “Walls of Freedom”: Street Art and Structural Violence in the Global City. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 9(2), pp. 6-18. doi: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.02

Boehmer, E. & Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2015). Literature, planning and infrastructure: Investigating the southern city through postcolonial texts. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51(4), pp. 395-409. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2015.1033813

Davies, D. ORCID: 0000-0002-3584-5789 (2015). Critiquing global capital and colonial (in)justice: Structural violence in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle (1913) and Economic Imperialism (1920). The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 50(1), pp. 45-58. doi: 10.1177/0021989414555209