Selected Peer Reviewed Publications
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
w/ Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Bruna Angotti and Luiz Fernando Toledo. (Accepted). Growing in and from Crisis: Environment, Labor and Capital in Brazil’s Exponential Prison Expansion. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
w/ Matthew Mahmoudi. (2025). From ‘ID’ to Proactive Profiling: Identity, Selective Governance and the Speculative Making of Bodies as Borders. Security Dialogue, 56(4), 438-458.
w/ Pedro Mendes Loureiro. (2025). A Expansão dos Sistemas Penitenciários de Mato Grosso e do Centro-Oeste Vista pelos Dados do INFOPEN. Boletim de Análise Políco-Institucional, Brasília: Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA).
Denyer Willis, Graham & Durán-Martínez, Angélica. (2024). Making sense of clandestine graves: Material epistemology and the political geography of uncertain knowledge. Political Geography, 115.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2023). ‘Trust and Safety’: Exchange, Protection and the Digital Market-Fortress in Platform Capitalism. Socio-Economic Review, 21(4), 1877-1895.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2022). Eating Pizza in Prison: Failing Family Men, Civil Punishment, and the Policing of Whiteness in São Paulo. American Ethnologist, 49(2), 221-233
Denyer Willis, Graham, Finn Stepputat, and Gaëlle Clavandier. (2021). Burial and the Politics of Dead Bodies in Times of Covid-19: Exception and Rupture? Human Remains and Violence. (Introduction to our guest edited double Special Issue).
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2021). Mundane Disappearance: The Politics of Letting Disappear in Brazil. Economy and Society, 50(2), 297-321.
Bueno, Samira & Graham Denyer Willis. (2019). The Exceptional Prison. Public Culture. 31(3), 645-663.
Lessing, Ben & Graham Denyer Willis. (2019). Legitimacy in Criminal Governance: Regulating a Drug Empire from Behind Bars. American Political Science Review, 113(2), 584-606.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2018). Violence, Bureaucracy and Intreccio in Brazil. Global Crime, 19 (3-4), 296-314.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2018). The Potter’s Field. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 60 (3), 539-568.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2017). City of Clones: Facsimiles and Governance in São Paulo. Current Sociology, 65 (2), 235- 247.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2017). Before the Body Count: Homicide Statistics and Everyday Security in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Studies, 49, 29-54.
Denyer Willis, Graham & Mariana Mota Prado. (2014). Process and Pattern in Institutional Reforms: A Case Study of the Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Brazil. World Development, 64, 232-242.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2014). Antagonistic Authorities and the Civil Police in São Paulo, Brazil. Latin American Research Review, 49(1), 3-22.
BOOK CHAPTERS, POLICY PUBLICATIONS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Denyer Willis, Graham. (forthcoming). Trust in Capitalism: Inquiry in the Forces of Generalization. In: Simmons, Erica and Smith, Nick. Rethinking Generalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Angotti, Bruna, Denyer Willis, Graham, Loureiro, Pedro and Toledo, Luiz. (forthcoming). Policy and its Underside: Planning for the Prison. In: Balakrishnan, S., Phelps, N, and Sotomayor, L. (Eds). Routledge Companion to Urban Planning - Planning for the Worlds Between. London: Routledge.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (forthcoming) Muted Martyrdom: Divergent Claims for Life from Death. In: Toulson, Ruth and Sarah Wagner, (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Death. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2016). Police, ‘Police’ and the Urban. In: Bradford, Ben, Beatrice Jauregui, Ian Loader and Jonny Steinberg. Sage Handbook of Global Policing. London: Sage, 479-496.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2016). Justice, Rights, and Discretionary Space in Brazilian Policing. In: Brunnegger, Sandra and Karen Faulk (Eds.) A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 79-98.
Davis, Diane E. and Graham Denyer Willis (2011). Anti-Crime Social Movements in Latin America. In: Snow, David A., Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam (Eds.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2009). Deadly Symbiosis? The PCC, the State and the Institutionalization of Violence in São Paulo. In: Rodgers, Dennis and Gareth A. Jones. Youth Violence in Latin America. New York: Palgrave.
IN PROCESS
w/ Bruna Angotti, Pedro Mendes Loureiro and Luis Fernando Toledo. (under review). Failing to Grow: How Walls Become Doorways in the Making of Brazilian Mass Incarceration. Comparative Studies in Society and History.
w/ Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Bruna Angotti and Luiz Fernando Toledo. (Accepted). Growing in and from Crisis: Environment, Labor and Capital in Brazil’s Exponential Prison Expansion. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
w/ Matthew Mahmoudi. (2025). From ‘ID’ to Proactive Profiling: Identity, Selective Governance and the Speculative Making of Bodies as Borders. Security Dialogue, 56(4), 438-458.
w/ Pedro Mendes Loureiro. (2025). A Expansão dos Sistemas Penitenciários de Mato Grosso e do Centro-Oeste Vista pelos Dados do INFOPEN. Boletim de Análise Políco-Institucional, Brasília: Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA).
Denyer Willis, Graham & Durán-Martínez, Angélica. (2024). Making sense of clandestine graves: Material epistemology and the political geography of uncertain knowledge. Political Geography, 115.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2023). ‘Trust and Safety’: Exchange, Protection and the Digital Market-Fortress in Platform Capitalism. Socio-Economic Review, 21(4), 1877-1895.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2022). Eating Pizza in Prison: Failing Family Men, Civil Punishment, and the Policing of Whiteness in São Paulo. American Ethnologist, 49(2), 221-233
Denyer Willis, Graham, Finn Stepputat, and Gaëlle Clavandier. (2021). Burial and the Politics of Dead Bodies in Times of Covid-19: Exception and Rupture? Human Remains and Violence. (Introduction to our guest edited double Special Issue).
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2021). Mundane Disappearance: The Politics of Letting Disappear in Brazil. Economy and Society, 50(2), 297-321.
Bueno, Samira & Graham Denyer Willis. (2019). The Exceptional Prison. Public Culture. 31(3), 645-663.
Lessing, Ben & Graham Denyer Willis. (2019). Legitimacy in Criminal Governance: Regulating a Drug Empire from Behind Bars. American Political Science Review, 113(2), 584-606.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2018). Violence, Bureaucracy and Intreccio in Brazil. Global Crime, 19 (3-4), 296-314.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2018). The Potter’s Field. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 60 (3), 539-568.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2017). City of Clones: Facsimiles and Governance in São Paulo. Current Sociology, 65 (2), 235- 247.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2017). Before the Body Count: Homicide Statistics and Everyday Security in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Studies, 49, 29-54.
Denyer Willis, Graham & Mariana Mota Prado. (2014). Process and Pattern in Institutional Reforms: A Case Study of the Police Pacification Units (UPPs) in Brazil. World Development, 64, 232-242.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2014). Antagonistic Authorities and the Civil Police in São Paulo, Brazil. Latin American Research Review, 49(1), 3-22.
BOOK CHAPTERS, POLICY PUBLICATIONS, ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Denyer Willis, Graham. (forthcoming). Trust in Capitalism: Inquiry in the Forces of Generalization. In: Simmons, Erica and Smith, Nick. Rethinking Generalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Angotti, Bruna, Denyer Willis, Graham, Loureiro, Pedro and Toledo, Luiz. (forthcoming). Policy and its Underside: Planning for the Prison. In: Balakrishnan, S., Phelps, N, and Sotomayor, L. (Eds). Routledge Companion to Urban Planning - Planning for the Worlds Between. London: Routledge.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (forthcoming) Muted Martyrdom: Divergent Claims for Life from Death. In: Toulson, Ruth and Sarah Wagner, (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Death. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2016). Police, ‘Police’ and the Urban. In: Bradford, Ben, Beatrice Jauregui, Ian Loader and Jonny Steinberg. Sage Handbook of Global Policing. London: Sage, 479-496.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2016). Justice, Rights, and Discretionary Space in Brazilian Policing. In: Brunnegger, Sandra and Karen Faulk (Eds.) A Sense of Justice: Legal Knowledge and Lived Experience in Latin America. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 79-98.
Davis, Diane E. and Graham Denyer Willis (2011). Anti-Crime Social Movements in Latin America. In: Snow, David A., Donatella Della Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam (Eds.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford.
Denyer Willis, Graham. (2009). Deadly Symbiosis? The PCC, the State and the Institutionalization of Violence in São Paulo. In: Rodgers, Dennis and Gareth A. Jones. Youth Violence in Latin America. New York: Palgrave.
IN PROCESS
w/ Bruna Angotti, Pedro Mendes Loureiro and Luis Fernando Toledo. (under review). Failing to Grow: How Walls Become Doorways in the Making of Brazilian Mass Incarceration. Comparative Studies in Society and History.
At left, a fieldwork photo of a Brazilian prison (2024)
