D Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 2290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5191-5954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Competition Law and Public Interest: A Challenge for Adjudication
This paper engages with the increasing concern that competition law can no longer concentrate exclusively on a narrow focus on price increases and output diminution. Within the context of growing global inequality and the exponential increase in economic power in the hands of a few, there is a need to develop a coherent jurisprudence capable of addressing manifest abuses of economic power. These challenges are not confined to any single jurisdict…
Learn-Modify-Implement-Reflect: Delivering Formative Assessment and Reflecting on Student Learning in Elementary Teacher Professional Learning
High-quality formative assessments play a critical role in revealing nuances in student thinking. The Framework and the Next Generation Science Standards offer contemporary strategies for assessing learners in science and engineering. However, teachers in rural settings often face challenges which make it difficult for them to learn about and apply these strategies (e.g. geographic isolation, limited professional learning opportunities, and small…
Two Cheers for Transformative Constitutionalism
Constitutional Essentials: Does it meet the realist critique
Digital Parametrism and Proto-Parametrism as Manifested in Architecture: Theory and Practice
Parametric design is an important design approach in the contemporary and future-oriented design processes. It is based on the concept of parameters, which leads to diversity by changing the value of the parameters without affecting the basic structure of the entity. The parametric model allows a designer to make geometric changes and reconfigurations. This research examines the dimensions of digital parametrics, and analog parametrics, and how t…
What Future for Constitutional Democracy in South Africa
South Africa embraced constitutional democracy in 1994 following the collapse of the Apartheid regime. The constitution that was finally passed in 1996 promised the development of a social democratic society. Within two decades, much of the promise contained in its constitutional instrument had been hollowed out. This paper considers the manner in which the ruling party, the African National Congress, embraced a project termed State Capture in wh…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 1
According to the NASW Code of Ethics, social workers are called to engage in political activity at the micro, mezzo and macro levels for the advancement of social justice and human rights.NASW has mechanisms in place to aggregate the voices of individual social workers through political activity.Drawing on a model of civic voluntarism, the aim of this study was to examine the impact of political activity on decisions by Texas social workers to jo…
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Is the South African Constitution an obstacle to a democratic post-colonial state?1
This article reviews recent criticisms levelled against the South African Constitution, particularly those focussed on the idea that the Constitution is a Eurocentric document that perpetuates forms of colonial discourse/political and economic structure in South Africa. Written for the South African Journal on Human Rights conference on decolonisation and the law, it focuses on two different schools of thought, described as constitutional promote…
Black Genders and Sexualities
Cutting across the humanities and social sciences, and situated in sites across the black diaspora, the work in this book collectively challenges notions that we are living in a post-racial age and in
South African Constitutional Jurisprudence: The First Fifteen Years
South Africa became a constitutional democracy in 1994. This article reviews the first 15years of constitutional jurisprudence produced by the country's first Constitutional Court. While the court interpreted the Constitution to eradicate racist, sexist, and homophobic legislation and similar common law rules, it did little to promote a comprehensive transformation of the legal system and thus the patterns of distribution that were supported by t…
Mouths on Fire: August Wilson's Blueswomen
Journal Article “Mouths on Fire”: August Wilson’s Blueswomen Get access Doris Davis Doris Davis Texas A&M University-Texarkana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 35, Issue 4, December 2010, Pages 165–185, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/35.4.165 Published: 01 December 2010
Transformation: The Constitutional Promise and Reality
The Constitution promised a form of social democracy built upon a transformed legal system. While transformation cannot be equated with revolution and hence the complete eradication of existing legal norms and concepts, the constitutional text promised the development of the existing legal system into a body of law which would, as coherently as possible, reflect the core values of the Constitution. This article examines the law of contract, socio…
Legal Realism, Transformation and the Legacy of Dugard
John Dugard's courageous inaugural lecture drew on American realism, modern natural law and South Africa's liberal tradition to argue that judges might better serve the ends of justice if they recognised their creative role, and replaced their subconscious prejudices and preferences with liberal values of the common law. This turn to legal realism to understand South Africa law was a significant intellectual development. However, its implications…
Transformative Constitutionalism and the Common and Customary Law
A basic assumption of the Constitution, which finds expression in its ‘development clauses’ (ss 8(3) & 39(2)), is that South Africa cannot progress toward a society based on human dignity, equality, and freedom with a legal system that rigs a transformative constitutional superstructure onto a common and customary law base inherited from the past and indelibly stained by apartheid. We examine South African judges’ performance in implementing the …
John Dugard’s Legacy to Human Rights Activism and Litigation
The first day of the conference was dedicated to John Dugard's work and legacy in human rights law in South Africa. This day addressed John's extensive academic contributions, as well as his more practical and strategic interventions in relation to human rights advocacy and litigation. One of the highlights of the day was a panel of past and present human rights lawyers and advocates, all of whom had had been influenced and inspired by John both …
Private Law After 1994: Progressive Development or Schizoid Confusion
The Constitution sets out to answer that question in the negative. It conferred significant powers and responsibilities upon courts to interrogate and, if necessary, alter both common and customary law in order to promote the foundational values contained in the Bill of Rights. That power or obligation to develop the common law is to be found in ss 8 and 39(2) of the Constitution, clauses which can be termed the development clauses of the Constit…
Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban China
China's class structure is changing dramatically in the wake of post-1978 market-oriented economic reforms. The creation of a mixed “market-socialist” economy has eroded the institutional bases of a cadre-dominated social hierarchy and created conditions for a new pattern of social stratification. Although conditions remain dynamic, results of a 1998 urban survey that measured strength and diversity of social ties among 400 households in four of …
Analyzing complex survey data
Journal Article Analyzing complex survey data Get access Antoinette Y. Rodgers-Farmer, PhD, Antoinette Y. Rodgers-Farmer, PhD Assistant Professor School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 536 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diane Davis Diane Davis Senior Manager Data Analysis and Computer Systems, Instit…
Physical activity patterns associated with cardiorespiratory fitness and reduced mortality: The Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study
OBJECTIVES: This study examined cross sectionally the physical activity patterns associated with low, moderate, and high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness. METHODS: Physical activity was assessed by questionnaire in a clinic population of 13,444 men and 3972 women 20 to 87 years of age. Estimated energy expenditure (kcal.wk-1) and volume (min.wk-1) of reported activities were calculated among individuals at low, moderate, and high fitness level…
Democracy and Integrity: Making Sense of the Constitution
(1998). Democracy and Integrity: Making Sense of the Constitution. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 127-145
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The Application of the 1996 Constitution in the Private Sphere
‘Lawyers have pictured law as reason encoded in the doings and dreams of power just as economists have seen actual market economies and their law as approximations to a pure system of rationality and reciprocity. They have sung for their supper by singing in their chains. Hope and insight may nevertheless succeed where indignation and history worship failed, and draw the lawyers and economists into the work of giving eyes and wings to the institu…
Centres of Plant Diversity: A Guide and Strategy for Their Conservation (Volume 1: Europe, Africa, South West Asia and the Middle East)
The effects of HIV/Aids intervention groups for high-risk women in urban clinics
OBJECTIVE. This study reports the results of a behavior change intervention offered to women at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection seen in an urban primary health care clinic. METHODS. Participants were 197 women randomly assigned to either an HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) risk reduction group or a comparison group. Women in the HIV/AIDS intervention group attended five group sessions focusing on risk educa…
Occupation, Class, and Social Networks in Urban China
China's class structure is changing dramatically in the wake of post-1978 market-oriented economic reforms. The creation of a mixed “market-socialist” economy has eroded the institutional bases of a cadre-dominated social hierarchy and created conditions for a new pattern of social stratification. Although conditions remain dynamic, results of a 1998 urban survey that measured strength and diversity of social ties among 400 households in four of …
The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Sexuality
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Rents, Power and Governance in Global Value Chains
This paper addresses the generation of rents and the distribution of gains in the global operations of governed Global Value Chains (GVCs) and seeks to provide an architecture for analyzing the governance of GVCs. It distinguishes between four sets of rent—gifts of nature; innovation rents; exogenously defined rents; and market power—and three spheres of governance—setting the rules -“legislative governance”; implementing the rules -“executive go…
Patterns of female sexual arousal during sleep and waking: Vaginal thermo-conductance studies
The Case against the Inclusion of Socioeconomic Demands in a Bill of Rights Except as Directive Principles
(1992). The Case against the Inclusion of Socioeconomic Demands in a Bill of Rights Except as Directive Principles. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 475-490
Is the South African Constitution an obstacle to a democratic post-colonial state?1
This article reviews recent criticisms levelled against the South African Constitution, particularly those focussed on the idea that the Constitution is a Eurocentric document that perpetuates forms of colonial discourse/political and economic structure in South Africa. Written for the South African Journal on Human Rights conference on decolonisation and the law, it focuses on two different schools of thought, described as constitutional promote…
Physical activity patterns associated with cardiorespiratory fitness and reduced mortality: The Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study
OBJECTIVES: This study examined cross sectionally the physical activity patterns associated with low, moderate, and high levels of cardiorespiratory fitness. METHODS: Physical activity was assessed by questionnaire in a clinic population of 13,444 men and 3972 women 20 to 87 years of age. Estimated energy expenditure (kcal.wk-1) and volume (min.wk-1) of reported activities were calculated among individuals at low, moderate, and high fitness level…
A Steel Pick from Mt. Adir in Palestine
Transformative Constitutionalism and the Common and Customary Law
A basic assumption of the Constitution, which finds expression in its ‘development clauses’ (ss 8(3) & 39(2)), is that South Africa cannot progress toward a society based on human dignity, equality, and freedom with a legal system that rigs a transformative constitutional superstructure onto a common and customary law base inherited from the past and indelibly stained by apartheid. We examine South African judges’ performance in implementing the …
Analyzing complex survey data
Journal Article Analyzing complex survey data Get access Antoinette Y. Rodgers-Farmer, PhD, Antoinette Y. Rodgers-Farmer, PhD Assistant Professor School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 536 George Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903 e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diane Davis Diane Davis Senior Manager Data Analysis and Computer Systems, Instit…
Cases and Comments
The Application of the 1996 Constitution in the Private Sphere
‘Lawyers have pictured law as reason encoded in the doings and dreams of power just as economists have seen actual market economies and their law as approximations to a pure system of rationality and reciprocity. They have sung for their supper by singing in their chains. Hope and insight may nevertheless succeed where indignation and history worship failed, and draw the lawyers and economists into the work of giving eyes and wings to the institu…
Centres of Plant Diversity: A Guide and Strategy for Their Conservation (Volume 1: Europe, Africa, South West Asia and the Middle East)
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996
"The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993, Act 108 of 1996." South African Journal on Human Rights, 13(1), pp. 1–2
The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism
(1996). The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism! South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 504-512
The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions
(1996). The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 361-404
Seeds of the Secular State: Dante's Political Philosophy as Seen in the De Monarchia
Journal Article Seeds of the Secular State: Dante's Political Philosophy as Seen in the De Monarchia Get access Derek Davis Derek Davis associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 33, Issue 2, Spring 1991, Pages 327–346, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/33.2.327 Published: 01 March 1991
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Political strategies and the state: Some Historical Observations
In the study of social movements of the oppressed, there often exists for the Left historian and political actor an inclination to avoid thorny questions of strategy and tactics. Definite strategic decisions may be naturalised as the only possible response to a particular situation or set of 'structural predeterminations'. They may be idealised as rational modes of action which make sense in the context of their application. They may be ignored i…
The Income Level of Clients of the Red Cross Welfare Service
The Income Level of Clients of the Red Cross Welfare Service
Patterns of female sexual arousal during sleep and waking: Vaginal thermo-conductance studies
Culture, Society and the Media
Examines the power of the media and the divisions between the liberal pluralist and the Marxist approaches to the analysis of the nature of the media
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A Steel Pick from Mt. Adir in Palestine
Political strategies and the state: Some Historical Observations
In the study of social movements of the oppressed, there often exists for the Left historian and political actor an inclination to avoid thorny questions of strategy and tactics. Definite strategic decisions may be naturalised as the only possible response to a particular situation or set of 'structural predeterminations'. They may be idealised as rational modes of action which make sense in the context of their application. They may be ignored i…
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Focus on Omar
The Cross-Cultural Study of Human Sexuality
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
A Long March: Administrative Law in the Appellate Division
(1988). A Long March: Administrative Law in the Appellate Division. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 281-302
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Seeds of the Secular State: Dante's Political Philosophy as Seen in the De Monarchia
Journal Article Seeds of the Secular State: Dante's Political Philosophy as Seen in the De Monarchia Get access Derek Davis Derek Davis associate director of the J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies Baylor University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Church and State, Volume 33, Issue 2, Spring 1991, Pages 327–346, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/33.2.327 Published: 01 March 1991
The Sociology of Mexico: Stalking the Path Not Taken
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 pattern…
Focus on Rudman
The Case against the Inclusion of Socioeconomic Demands in a Bill of Rights Except as Directive Principles
(1992). The Case against the Inclusion of Socioeconomic Demands in a Bill of Rights Except as Directive Principles. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 475-490
The effects of HIV/Aids intervention groups for high-risk women in urban clinics
OBJECTIVE. This study reports the results of a behavior change intervention offered to women at high risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection seen in an urban primary health care clinic. METHODS. Participants were 197 women randomly assigned to either an HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) risk reduction group or a comparison group. Women in the HIV/AIDS intervention group attended five group sessions focusing on risk educa…
Democracy — Its Influence upon the Process of Constitutional Interpretation
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The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism
(1996). The Twist of Language and the Two Fagans: Please Sir May I have Some More Literalism! South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 504-512
The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions
(1996). The Last Laugh: Du Plessis v De Klerk, Classical Liberalism, Creole Liberalism and the Application of Fundamental Rights under the Interim and the Final Constitutions. South African Journal on Human Rights: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 361-404
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