Joseph M Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 318556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph M Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9526-1865 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1928 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: A community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards that exacerbate ongoing humanitarian and economic crises. Historically, local and federal recovery efforts have been slow and inadequate, leaving community members as first responders post disaster. Community‐based disaster preparedness can reduce vulnerability and improve disaster management strategies, yet there is an absence of implementation tools appropriate for grassroots organisatio…
Did the Covid-19 pandemic accelerate localisation
Canada’s Small Ingos: Growth Aspirations, Strategies, and Constraints
During the past two decades, international development non-government organizations (INGOs) have proliferated in the global North. In Canada, there are ∼1350 registered INGOs—of which, 950 were established in 2000 or later, 1192 receive no federal government funding, 1202 have annual revenues under CAD one million dollars, and 709 have no full-time employees. This new wave of Small and Medium Organizations (SMOs) epitomises the decentralisation o…
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why
As NGOs have emerged as arguably the most prominent actors within the global development enterprise, their international activities and presence have grown to represent a key area of inquiry for development scholars. Existing literature on the geographic distribution of development NGOs leans heavily on quantitative analysis, which lends little insight into the deeper motivations behind the location-based decisions that these organizations make; …
Puerto Rico's Rescued Schools: A Grassroots Adaptive Reuse Movement for Abandoned School Buildings
From 2007 to 2019, over 650 public schools closed in Puerto Rico. School closures not only affect students and teachers; these spaces serve as anchor institutions providing social infrastructure for the sustained health of communities. While closed schools remove a critical community asset, these vacant buildings provide adaptive reuse opportunities for alternative social infrastructure and community resources. This article explores how abandoned…
Hub-driven policy packages as a basis for e-waste reform: Rationales and a Case Study
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principles have emerged as the template for e-waste policies, centered on establishing regulated collection and recycling channels. Originating in the global North, these policies are increasingly adopted in the global South where e-waste is primarily ‘managed’ by the informal sector, centered in spatially defined hubs. These formal systems fail to achieve collection quotas, while further marginalizing infor…
Understanding public support for Canadian aid to developing countries: The role of information
Need, Merit, Self‐Interest or Convenience? Exploring Aid Allocation Motives of Grassroots International NGOs
Despite substantial scholarly attention given to aid allocation motives of state agencies and professionalized non‐governmental organizations (NGOs), privately funded grassroots international NGOs (GINGOs), which have rapidly emerged in the global North, have escaped academic analysis. Using an original dataset of 948 Canadian NGOs, this study compares country aid allocation patterns along competing variables of need, merit, self‐interest and con…
Scaling the Ingo: What the Development and Expansion of Canadian Ingos Tells Us
The literature on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) has focused primarily on large INGOs, which capture the majority of total INGO spending but represent a small number of total INGOs. Over the past two decades, the number of INGOs has more than tripled throughout the global North, which has ushered in a decentralization of the sector as an emerging class of small- and medium-sized INGOs increasingly share the same space once o…
In Ingos we trust? How individual determinants and the framing of Ingos influences public trust
Recent scandals in the media have questioned the legitimacy of and public trust in international NGOs (INGOs). Yet, little research has explored the complex relationships that influence public trust in INGOs. This article addresses this knowledge gap by analysing data from an experimental survey of English-speaking Canadian residents to explore how trust varies based on the different ways INGOs are framed and the individual determinants that infl…
Canada's Gingos: Who Are They, What Are They Doing, and What Role for the Future
International NGOs (INGOs) in the global North have rapidly grown in number over the past two decades, the majority of which are grassroots organisations (GINGOs). Despite an abundance of research on “professionalised” INGOs, little empirical data is available to characterise GINGOs. This study constructs a dataset of 607 Canadian GINGOs based on the Canada Revenue Agency T3010 forms and organisation websites to answer three broad questions of GI…
Comparing the Prevalence and Organizational Distinctiveness of Faith-Based and Secular Development NGOs in Canada
Faith-based development organizations (FBOs) have been argued to deliver more cost-efficient development projects than their secular counterparts through exclusive access to faith networks, which provide predictable decentralized funding, the recruitment of volunteers, low employee salaries, and less overhead and indirect costs. To date, however, comparative analyses of religious and secular organizations have relied on a case-by-case approach, l…
Real “non-governmental” aid and poverty: Comparing privately and publicly financed NGOs in Canada
Due to their perceived efficiency and poverty orientation, NGOs have increasingly served as Official Development Assistance (ODA) channels, leading scholars to question their autonomy. NGO aid allocation studies have limited analysis to the largest organisations, leaving privately financed NGOs unaccounted for. This study constructs an inventory of Canadian NGOs, segmented by funding source, to determine the influence of ODA. Contrary to entrench…
Quantifying flows and economies of informal e-waste hubs: Learning from the Israeli-Palestinian e-waste sector
Despite increasing academic attention and the pressing development and environmental importance of informal e-waste economies in the global South, there remains a dearth of reliable quantitative data to guide theory and appropriate policy responses. We illustrate this problem through a review of the thin and patchy data presented in existing studies that attempt to quantify the flows and economic impact of informal e-waste hubs. We then describe …
Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case
Extended producer responsibility policies and interventions propose a template for electronic waste management with considerable and growing discursive and policy traction worldwide. Originating in the global North, they increasingly implicate countries and sites in the global South, in particular, people working in informal electronic waste hubs that process Northern electronic waste. This paper examines the implications of extended producer res…
Beyond the pollution haven hypothesis: Where and why do e-waste hubs emerge and what does this mean for policies and interventions
Best of two worlds? Towards ethical electronics repair, reuse, repurposing and recycling
Solomon and Ashmedai (bGittin 68a-b), King Hiram, and Procopius: Exegesis and Folklore
Solomon and Ashmedai (bGittin 68a–b), King Hiram, and Procopius:Exegesis and Folklore Joseph M. Davis EXEGESIS AND FOLKLORE IN RABBINIC LEGENDS The story of Ashmedai and Solomon in bGit 68a–b is an extravagant tale of travel, demons, doppelgängers, sex, teetotaling, and magical rings. One of the longest narratives in the Babylonian Talmud, it is a story that has understandably attracted many interpreters, both traditional and academic.1 Our tale …
Cycles des déchets et valorisation: Le système israélo-palestinien de traitement des déchets électroniques
Ce reportage photo indique et illustre les dynamiques et les impacts d'une industrie palestinienne informelle de ramassage et de traitement de la majeure partie des déchets électroniques (« e-déchets ») israéliens, en place depuis plus une dizaine d'années. S'appuyant sur des observations détaillées sur le terrain réalisées durant ces quatre dernières années, comprenant plus de 300 entretiens approfondis semi-directifs auprès d'une variété d'acte…
Philosophy, Dogma, and Exegesis in Medieval Ashkenazic Judaism: The Evidence of Sefer Hadrat Qodesh
During the Middle Ages, each Mediterranean land, from one end of the sea to the other, had its Jewish philosophers. There was one region and one Jewish culture, however, that made no contribution at all to the writing of medieval Jewish philosophy. That was Ashkenazic or Northern European Judaism, the culture of the Jews of England, Northern France, Germany, and Eastern Europe north of the Balkans
Community Services to Discharged Psychiatric Patients
Differentiating psychiatric readmissions from nonreadmissions
This study tracked a cohort of 550 discharged state hospital patients through an entire publicly-funded mental health aftercare system. Data from hospital and community agency records indicate that neither social-demographic nor clinical characteristics successfully differentiated psychiatric readmissions from nonreadmissions. Use of aftercare services--in terms of the variety available and their relevance to discharged patients' assessed needs--…
Europe Meets the Institute
Beyond the pollution haven hypothesis: Where and why do e-waste hubs emerge and what does this mean for policies and interventions
Best of two worlds? Towards ethical electronics repair, reuse, repurposing and recycling
Real “non-governmental” aid and poverty: Comparing privately and publicly financed NGOs in Canada
Due to their perceived efficiency and poverty orientation, NGOs have increasingly served as Official Development Assistance (ODA) channels, leading scholars to question their autonomy. NGO aid allocation studies have limited analysis to the largest organisations, leaving privately financed NGOs unaccounted for. This study constructs an inventory of Canadian NGOs, segmented by funding source, to determine the influence of ODA. Contrary to entrench…
Quantifying flows and economies of informal e-waste hubs: Learning from the Israeli-Palestinian e-waste sector
Despite increasing academic attention and the pressing development and environmental importance of informal e-waste economies in the global South, there remains a dearth of reliable quantitative data to guide theory and appropriate policy responses. We illustrate this problem through a review of the thin and patchy data presented in existing studies that attempt to quantify the flows and economic impact of informal e-waste hubs. We then describe …
Canada's Gingos: Who Are They, What Are They Doing, and What Role for the Future
International NGOs (INGOs) in the global North have rapidly grown in number over the past two decades, the majority of which are grassroots organisations (GINGOs). Despite an abundance of research on “professionalised” INGOs, little empirical data is available to characterise GINGOs. This study constructs a dataset of 607 Canadian GINGOs based on the Canada Revenue Agency T3010 forms and organisation websites to answer three broad questions of GI…
Comparing the Prevalence and Organizational Distinctiveness of Faith-Based and Secular Development NGOs in Canada
Faith-based development organizations (FBOs) have been argued to deliver more cost-efficient development projects than their secular counterparts through exclusive access to faith networks, which provide predictable decentralized funding, the recruitment of volunteers, low employee salaries, and less overhead and indirect costs. To date, however, comparative analyses of religious and secular organizations have relied on a case-by-case approach, l…
Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case
Extended producer responsibility policies and interventions propose a template for electronic waste management with considerable and growing discursive and policy traction worldwide. Originating in the global North, they increasingly implicate countries and sites in the global South, in particular, people working in informal electronic waste hubs that process Northern electronic waste. This paper examines the implications of extended producer res…
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why
As NGOs have emerged as arguably the most prominent actors within the global development enterprise, their international activities and presence have grown to represent a key area of inquiry for development scholars. Existing literature on the geographic distribution of development NGOs leans heavily on quantitative analysis, which lends little insight into the deeper motivations behind the location-based decisions that these organizations make; …
Puerto Rico's Rescued Schools: A Grassroots Adaptive Reuse Movement for Abandoned School Buildings
From 2007 to 2019, over 650 public schools closed in Puerto Rico. School closures not only affect students and teachers; these spaces serve as anchor institutions providing social infrastructure for the sustained health of communities. While closed schools remove a critical community asset, these vacant buildings provide adaptive reuse opportunities for alternative social infrastructure and community resources. This article explores how abandoned…
In Ingos we trust? How individual determinants and the framing of Ingos influences public trust
Recent scandals in the media have questioned the legitimacy of and public trust in international NGOs (INGOs). Yet, little research has explored the complex relationships that influence public trust in INGOs. This article addresses this knowledge gap by analysing data from an experimental survey of English-speaking Canadian residents to explore how trust varies based on the different ways INGOs are framed and the individual determinants that infl…
Cycles des déchets et valorisation: Le système israélo-palestinien de traitement des déchets électroniques
Ce reportage photo indique et illustre les dynamiques et les impacts d'une industrie palestinienne informelle de ramassage et de traitement de la majeure partie des déchets électroniques (« e-déchets ») israéliens, en place depuis plus une dizaine d'années. S'appuyant sur des observations détaillées sur le terrain réalisées durant ces quatre dernières années, comprenant plus de 300 entretiens approfondis semi-directifs auprès d'une variété d'acte…
Europe Meets the Institute
Differentiating psychiatric readmissions from nonreadmissions
This study tracked a cohort of 550 discharged state hospital patients through an entire publicly-funded mental health aftercare system. Data from hospital and community agency records indicate that neither social-demographic nor clinical characteristics successfully differentiated psychiatric readmissions from nonreadmissions. Use of aftercare services--in terms of the variety available and their relevance to discharged patients' assessed needs--…
Community Services to Discharged Psychiatric Patients
Philosophy, Dogma, and Exegesis in Medieval Ashkenazic Judaism: The Evidence of Sefer Hadrat Qodesh
During the Middle Ages, each Mediterranean land, from one end of the sea to the other, had its Jewish philosophers. There was one region and one Jewish culture, however, that made no contribution at all to the writing of medieval Jewish philosophy. That was Ashkenazic or Northern European Judaism, the culture of the Jews of England, Northern France, Germany, and Eastern Europe north of the Balkans
Solomon and Ashmedai (bGittin 68a-b), King Hiram, and Procopius: Exegesis and Folklore
Solomon and Ashmedai (bGittin 68a–b), King Hiram, and Procopius:Exegesis and Folklore Joseph M. Davis EXEGESIS AND FOLKLORE IN RABBINIC LEGENDS The story of Ashmedai and Solomon in bGit 68a–b is an extravagant tale of travel, demons, doppelgängers, sex, teetotaling, and magical rings. One of the longest narratives in the Babylonian Talmud, it is a story that has understandably attracted many interpreters, both traditional and academic.1 Our tale …
Cycles des déchets et valorisation: Le système israélo-palestinien de traitement des déchets électroniques
Ce reportage photo indique et illustre les dynamiques et les impacts d'une industrie palestinienne informelle de ramassage et de traitement de la majeure partie des déchets électroniques (« e-déchets ») israéliens, en place depuis plus une dizaine d'années. S'appuyant sur des observations détaillées sur le terrain réalisées durant ces quatre dernières années, comprenant plus de 300 entretiens approfondis semi-directifs auprès d'une variété d'acte…
Best of two worlds? Towards ethical electronics repair, reuse, repurposing and recycling
Beyond the pollution haven hypothesis: Where and why do e-waste hubs emerge and what does this mean for policies and interventions
Comparing the Prevalence and Organizational Distinctiveness of Faith-Based and Secular Development NGOs in Canada
Faith-based development organizations (FBOs) have been argued to deliver more cost-efficient development projects than their secular counterparts through exclusive access to faith networks, which provide predictable decentralized funding, the recruitment of volunteers, low employee salaries, and less overhead and indirect costs. To date, however, comparative analyses of religious and secular organizations have relied on a case-by-case approach, l…
Real “non-governmental” aid and poverty: Comparing privately and publicly financed NGOs in Canada
Due to their perceived efficiency and poverty orientation, NGOs have increasingly served as Official Development Assistance (ODA) channels, leading scholars to question their autonomy. NGO aid allocation studies have limited analysis to the largest organisations, leaving privately financed NGOs unaccounted for. This study constructs an inventory of Canadian NGOs, segmented by funding source, to determine the influence of ODA. Contrary to entrench…
Quantifying flows and economies of informal e-waste hubs: Learning from the Israeli-Palestinian e-waste sector
Despite increasing academic attention and the pressing development and environmental importance of informal e-waste economies in the global South, there remains a dearth of reliable quantitative data to guide theory and appropriate policy responses. We illustrate this problem through a review of the thin and patchy data presented in existing studies that attempt to quantify the flows and economic impact of informal e-waste hubs. We then describe …
Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case
Extended producer responsibility policies and interventions propose a template for electronic waste management with considerable and growing discursive and policy traction worldwide. Originating in the global North, they increasingly implicate countries and sites in the global South, in particular, people working in informal electronic waste hubs that process Northern electronic waste. This paper examines the implications of extended producer res…
Need, Merit, Self‐Interest or Convenience? Exploring Aid Allocation Motives of Grassroots International NGOs
Despite substantial scholarly attention given to aid allocation motives of state agencies and professionalized non‐governmental organizations (NGOs), privately funded grassroots international NGOs (GINGOs), which have rapidly emerged in the global North, have escaped academic analysis. Using an original dataset of 948 Canadian NGOs, this study compares country aid allocation patterns along competing variables of need, merit, self‐interest and con…
Scaling the Ingo: What the Development and Expansion of Canadian Ingos Tells Us
The literature on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) has focused primarily on large INGOs, which capture the majority of total INGO spending but represent a small number of total INGOs. Over the past two decades, the number of INGOs has more than tripled throughout the global North, which has ushered in a decentralization of the sector as an emerging class of small- and medium-sized INGOs increasingly share the same space once o…
In Ingos we trust? How individual determinants and the framing of Ingos influences public trust
Recent scandals in the media have questioned the legitimacy of and public trust in international NGOs (INGOs). Yet, little research has explored the complex relationships that influence public trust in INGOs. This article addresses this knowledge gap by analysing data from an experimental survey of English-speaking Canadian residents to explore how trust varies based on the different ways INGOs are framed and the individual determinants that infl…
Canada's Gingos: Who Are They, What Are They Doing, and What Role for the Future
International NGOs (INGOs) in the global North have rapidly grown in number over the past two decades, the majority of which are grassroots organisations (GINGOs). Despite an abundance of research on “professionalised” INGOs, little empirical data is available to characterise GINGOs. This study constructs a dataset of 607 Canadian GINGOs based on the Canada Revenue Agency T3010 forms and organisation websites to answer three broad questions of GI…
Understanding public support for Canadian aid to developing countries: The role of information
Canada’s Small Ingos: Growth Aspirations, Strategies, and Constraints
During the past two decades, international development non-government organizations (INGOs) have proliferated in the global North. In Canada, there are ∼1350 registered INGOs—of which, 950 were established in 2000 or later, 1192 receive no federal government funding, 1202 have annual revenues under CAD one million dollars, and 709 have no full-time employees. This new wave of Small and Medium Organizations (SMOs) epitomises the decentralisation o…
Tracing the Geography of NGOs: Exploring where Canadian Development Organizations Work and Why
As NGOs have emerged as arguably the most prominent actors within the global development enterprise, their international activities and presence have grown to represent a key area of inquiry for development scholars. Existing literature on the geographic distribution of development NGOs leans heavily on quantitative analysis, which lends little insight into the deeper motivations behind the location-based decisions that these organizations make; …
Puerto Rico's Rescued Schools: A Grassroots Adaptive Reuse Movement for Abandoned School Buildings
From 2007 to 2019, over 650 public schools closed in Puerto Rico. School closures not only affect students and teachers; these spaces serve as anchor institutions providing social infrastructure for the sustained health of communities. While closed schools remove a critical community asset, these vacant buildings provide adaptive reuse opportunities for alternative social infrastructure and community resources. This article explores how abandoned…
Hub-driven policy packages as a basis for e-waste reform: Rationales and a Case Study
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principles have emerged as the template for e-waste policies, centered on establishing regulated collection and recycling channels. Originating in the global North, these policies are increasingly adopted in the global South where e-waste is primarily ‘managed’ by the informal sector, centered in spatially defined hubs. These formal systems fail to achieve collection quotas, while further marginalizing infor…
Did the Covid-19 pandemic accelerate localisation
The Disaster Response Mobilization System: A community‐based disaster preparedness strategy in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards that exacerbate ongoing humanitarian and economic crises. Historically, local and federal recovery efforts have been slow and inadequate, leaving community members as first responders post disaster. Community‐based disaster preparedness can reduce vulnerability and improve disaster management strategies, yet there is an absence of implementation tools appropriate for grassroots organisatio…
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