Expert Source: David Walker, Ph.D.

Education:

• B.A., University of California at Berkeley (Latin American studies major, Spanish and Portuguese minors)
• M.A., San Diego State University (Latin American studies) Thesis: “Eijido Privatization and Urbanization: Neoliberalism and Landscape Changes in Mexican Border Cities”
• Ph.D., University of Kentucky (geography) Dissertation: “Gentrification Moves to the Global South: An Analysis of the Programa de Rescate, a Neoliberal Urban Policy in México City’s Central Histórico”

Areas of Expertise:

• Contemporary Urban Issues
• Economic Geography, Urban Geography
• Demographics
• Migration
• Sustainable Development
• Race and Gender

Published Works:

• Walker, David and Margath Walker. Power Identity and the Production of Buffer Villages in the Second Most Remote Region in All of Mexico (2008) Antipode.
• Walker, David, John Paul Jones III, Susan Roberts, Oliver Fröhling (2007). When Participation Meets Empowerment: The WWF and The Politics of Invitation in Chimalapas Oaxaca. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
• Walker, Margath and David Walker and Yanga Villa-Gomez (2006). The Wal-Martization of Teotihuacan: Issues of Resistance and Cultural Heritage. Stanley D. Brunn, Wal-Mart World. Routledge Press. Pp. 213-227.
• Gillen, Jamie, Ben Smith, David Walker (2004). Geographies of Globalization: disclosure interviews Neil Smith. Disclosure 13. Pp.147-158.
• Walker, David et al. Borderlink, the Tijuana River Basis: Basic Environmental and Socioeconomic Data.” Yearly working paper. The Institute for Regional Studies of the Californias. San Diego State University Press.