Olivia R Williams

Biographic Data

ID5226210
NAMEOlivia R Williams
GIVEN NAMESOlivia R
FAMILY NAMEWilliams
SIGNATUREWILLIAMS O R
AFFILIATIONSIndependent Scholar, Madison, WI, USA;
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS81
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX5

  • I don't think anybody’s ever been to scale

    Deborah G Martin, John R Pierce et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2024References: 3

    This paper examines the scalar logics of Community Land Trusts, nonprofits that work to facilitate affordable housing and promote community control of local development. Like many nonprofits, CLTs face a tension between assumed efficiencies that come with larger size on one hand, and the assumed responsiveness to community stakeholders that comes with smaller size on the other. Through an examination of CLTs in Minnesota, USA that included over 1…

  • Ownership is a habit of mind

    John R Pierce, James Defilippis et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2021References: 8

    Community land trusts (“CLTs”) have garnered attention as a novel, non-state organizational mechanism for enabling permanently affordable homeownership. In canonical form, they separate a home from the land upon which it sits, holding the land in trust and selling the home for its value without the land. Additionally, CLTs use ground lease restrictions to constrain the resale process and enforce long-term reproduction of affordability. Herein, we…

  • Meanings of limited equity homeownership in community land trusts

    Deborah G Martin, Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani et al.ARTICLEHousing Studies2020Cited by: 2References: 20

    Discourses regarding homeownership in the United States emphasize housing as an economic investment. This focus fosters a number of problems, including inflated housing values, increased segregation, economic divisions, and the foreclosure crisis. Community land trusts (CLTs) put land in a non-profit trust to keep it affordable long-term. We examine CLTs as affordable housing organizations where individual residents own homes in the trust and lea…

  • On the Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts in the United States

    Open AccessJames Defilippis, Oscar R Williams et al.ARTICLEAntipode2019Cited by: 10References: 19

    Growing interest in non‐capitalist ownership models raises empirical questions about the political implications of such models. In this paper we ask: are non‐capitalist property ownership models inherently politically transformative? A study of community land trusts ( CLT s) based in Minnesota illustrates that alternative property models do not necessarily produce transformative political outcomes. Interviews of those involved in CLT s revealed t…

  • W(h)ither the community in community land trusts

    James Defilippis, Brian Stromberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2017Cited by: 24References: 4

    Community land trusts (CLTs) began as a model for community control over land in the late 1960s. The model allows for individual ownership of improvements to land while the land is owned by the CLT. This effectively removes the land from the speculative market and allows for less marketable uses that might benefit disadvantaged communities. As the CLT model has grown and proliferated, it has evolved over time to become primarily a means to provid…

  • The spirit of revolution

    Oscar R Williams, Olivia R WilliamsARTICLEGender Place & Culture2016Cited by: 2

  • Against Power? Distinguishing Between Acquisitive Resistance and Subversion

    Open AccessJohn R Pierce, Oscar R Williams et al.ARTICLEGeografiska Annaler Series B…2016Cited by: 8References: 20

    Critiques of contemporary political‐economic formations, while grounded in an array of theoretical traditions, have often centered on strategies for relocating power (as embodied in accumulated wealth, control of labor and corporate entities, or the state) in institutions that are nominally more egalitarian or democratic. Such alternative institutions are intended to better represent those who have been historically harmed by the use of power. Th…

  • Inserting scales of urban politics

    Oscar R Williams, Olivia R Williams et al.ARTICLEUrban Geography2016Cited by: 6References: 19

    This article explores the geographic literature on governance at smaller-than-urban but larger-than-household scales, identifying a relative inattention to neighborhood and other partial-city scales of governance. Hegemonic power relationships are institutionalized at particular scales of state government (e.g. national, regional, municipal) and state-sanctioned governing units (e.g. jurisdictional districts or supranational bodies), which in tur…

  • Iterative parallelism as research praxis

    Open AccessOscar R Williams, Olivia R Williams et al.ARTICLEArea2016Cited by: 1References: 30

    Discussions of geography's role outside the academy have tended toward arguments for greater public relevance, either by revising the discipline's empirical foci, or by adopting more public‐oriented or activist approaches to research. While we are sympathetic to these ideas, we see an inherent tension between the discursive goals of academic scholarship and the everyday political world beyond it. Political discourse makes productive use of signif…

  • Rights in places

    Open AccessJoseph Pierce, John R Pierce et al.ARTICLEGeoforum2016Cited by: 28References: 18