Sasha Davis
Title
Sasha Davis
Rights
Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to Mia Bellavance.
Birthplace
United States of America
Primary Sources
Davis, S. (2025, forthcoming). Replace the State: How to Change the World when Elections and Protests Fail. University of Minnesota Press. https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919528/replace-the-state/
Davis, S., & Joly, G. (2025). Constructing Island-Centred Securities: Towards Assemblages of Decolonisation and Well-Being in the Pacific. Geopolitics, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2439280
https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12722
Davis, S., Munger, L.A., & Legacy, H.J. (2020). Someone else’s chain, someone else’s road: U.S. military strategy, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and island agency in the Pacific. Island Studies Journal, 15(2), 13–36. https://islandstudiesjournal.org/v15n2/
Davis, S. (2020). Islands and oceans: Reimagining society and social change. The University of Georgia Press. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820357355/islands-and-oceans/.
Davis, S. (2017). Apparatuses of occupation: Translocal social movements, states and the archipelagic spatialities of power. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), 110–122. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45147074
Davis, S., & Hayes-Conroy J. (2017). Invisible radiation reveals who we are as people: Environmental complexity, gendered risk, and biopolitics after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Social & Cultural Geography, 19(6), 720–740. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1304566
Davis, S. (2015). The empires’ edge: Militarization, resistance, and transcending hegemony in the Pacific. University of Georgia Press. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820347356/the-empires-edge/
Davis, S. (2011). The US military base network and contemporary colonialism: Power projection, resistance and the quest for operational unilateralism. Political Geography, 30(4), 215–224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.04.003.
Secondary Sources
Grydehøj, A., Bevacqua, M. L., Chibana, M., Nadarajah, Y., Simonsen, A., Su, P., ... & Davis, S. (2021). Practicing decolonial political geography: Island perspectives on neocolonialism and the China threat discourse. Political Geography, 85, 102330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102330
Extra Resources
Davis, S. (2021, September 29). The myth of 'spheres of influence' in the Pacific region: How a faulty geographical mindset is leading policyakers astray in the region. The Diplomat. Accessed March 30, 2023. https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/the-myth-of-spheres-of-influence-in-the-pacific-region/
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Citation
“Sasha Davis,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 6, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/558.