Publications

PEER REVIEWED WORK

Articles (published / submitted)

  1. Mutter S., Davret J., Kayanan C.M. & Kitchin R. (accepted) The seamful political geographies of indexical data. Science, Technoogy & Human Values
  2. Davret J., Hynes D., Mutter S. & Somers Donnelly J. (2026). Reframing data activism: Towards a broader understanding of datafied social movements. Big Data & Society, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261457414
  3. Davret, J., Noucher, M., & Trouillet, B. (2026). Unpacking map authority in marine spatial planning: A stakeholder perspective on map making and map use in ocean governance. Geoforum, 172, 104631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2026.104631
  4. Davret J. (2026). The Politics of Counting Homelessness: The Case of Ireland. Housing Policy Debate, 36(1), 3–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2025.2599125 [OA Post Print]
  5.  Kayanan, C.M., Mutter, S., Davret, J., & Kitchin, R. (2026). The digital turn in planning and the production of ‘good enough’ planning systems. European Planning Studies, 34(4), 697–718. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2025.2599869 [OA Post Print]
  6. Kitchin R.,Davret J., Kayanan C.M., Mutter S. (2025) The temporal organisation and practices of planning work: The temporalities of digital infrastructure, the digital infrastructuring of temporality in “STUDI ORGANIZZATIVI ” 2/2025, pp 180-204, DOI: 10.3280/SO2025-002008 [OA Post Print] [Special Issue]
  7. Kitchin R., Davret J., Kayanan C.M. & Mutter S. (2025). Assemblage theory, data systems and data ecosystems: The data assemblages of the Irish planning system. Big Data & Society, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251352822
  8. Kitchin R., Davret J., Kayanan C.M. & Mutter S. (2025). Genealogy of a data ecosystem: The digitalisation of planning development and control in Ireland, 2000–2024. Digital Geography and Society, 8, 100124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2025.100124
  9. Davret, J. & Trouillet, B. (2025). How do stakeholders engage with critical cartography in planning? Analysis of a decision-making process in marine governance. Environmental Science & Policy, 169, 104083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104083
  10. Kitchin R., Davret J., Kayanan C.M. & Mutter S. (2025). Data mobilities: rethinking the movement and circulation of digital data. Mobilities, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2025.2481309
  11. Davret J. & Trouillet B. (2025) Recycling Data for Marine Spatial Planning: A review of maritime plans in Europe, Journal of Interdisciplinary Methodologies and Issues in Sciences, Vol. 12-Geographic information science & environmental measurement. https://doi.org/10.46298/jimis.13496
  12. Guyot-Téphany J., Davret J., Tissière L., Trouillet B. (2024) Public participation in marine spatial planning in France: From minimal requirements to minimal achievements, Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 256, ISSN 0964-5691, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107310
  13. Davret J., Trouillet B. & Toonen H. (2024) The digital turn of marine planning: a global analysis of ocean geoportals, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 26(1), 75–90. DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2023.2283081
  14. Davret J. & Kitchin R. (under review) The Role of Data Intermediaries in a Data Ecosystem: Facilitators and Gatekeepers of Public Data.
  15. Davret J., Kayanan C.M., Mutter S. & Kitchin R. (in prep.) Who owns the land? Digital opacity, marketisation and the politics of land ownership in Ireland. [Special Issue]
  16. Davret J. (in prep.) Transgressing boundaries, reinforcing borders: Data intermediaries and the infrastructural politics of datafication. [Special Issue]
  17. Kitchin R., Aaron L., Davret J., Dawkins O., Harris E., Hynes D., Kayanan C.M., Mumby H. & Mutter S. (in prep.) Methodological challenges in charting the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Ireland [Special Issue]
  18. Davret J., Kayanan C.M. Shelton T. & Kitchin R. (in prep.) Critical reflections on housing data. International Journal and Housing Policy [Special Issue]

Book chapters

  1. Mutter S., Hynes D., Davret J. & Tubridy F. (2026). Organising collectives, collectivising data: working together (on) disparate data to resist evictions in Ireland. In S. Mutter, D. Hynes & R. Kitchin (Eds.), The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning. Bristol University Press. [OA Pre Print]
  2. Davret J., Kayanan C.M., Kitchin R., & Mutter S. (2026). The nature and development of a planning data ecosystem. In A. Aaltonen, M. Stelmaszak, & K. Lyytinen (Eds.), Research Handbook on Digital Data (pp. 324–342). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035348718.00032 [OA Post Print]
  3. Davret J. (2026). Maps and Geographic Information in Planning. In T. Joliveau & M. Noucher (Eds.), Geospatial Technologies and Society (pp. 89–116). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394452156.ch4
  4. Davret J., Hynes D., & Kitchin R. (2025). Fractured Data Infrastructures: Sociomaterial frictions in the digitalization of Irish planning. In R. V. Burri, H. Göbel, & I. Reimers (Eds.), Grounding Digitalization, Cultural perspectives on materialities technologies and spaces (pp. 21–38). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839457887-002
  5. Davret J. & Galley M. (submitted) Narrative pathways and defamiliarisation: using speculative fiction for reflection and creative collaboration. In C.M. Kayanan, J. Davret, O. Dawkins & R. Kitchin (Eds.), Researching place using creative approaches: Critical reflections on epistemology, methodology and methods. Bristol University Press.
  6. Kitchin R., Davret J., Hynes D. & Kayanan C.M. (submitted) Data through a territorial lens. In A. Datta & F. Hoefsloot (Eds.), Data Terrains. Bristol University Press.
  7. Davret J., Hynes D., Kayanan C.M., Mutter S. & Kitchin C. (submitted) Urban Data Governance and Data Politics. Oxford Research Encyclopedia.
  8. Kayanan C.M., Davret J., Dawkins O. & Kitchin C. (in prep.) Theoretical Perspectives on Research Creation. In C.M. Kayanan, J. Davret, O. Dawkins & R. Kitchin (Eds.), Creatively Researching Place: Critical Reflections on Research-Creation and Arts-Based Methods. Bristol University Press.

Notes / Entries

  1. Davret J. & Noucher M. (in press) Rob Kitchin biography. In Y. Calbérac, A-F. Hoyaux, A. Oldra, M. Stock & A. Volvey (Eds.), Thinking spatialities.
  2. Davret J. (submitted) Faut-il prendre au sérieux la parole géomaticienne ? P. Gautreau, B. Hautdidier & M. Noucher (Eds.), Emprises. [French only 🇫🇷]
  3. Davret J. (submitted) Observer les infrastructures numériques d’entreprises : méthode d’ethnographie des plateformes. P. Gautreau, B. Hautdidier & M. Noucher (Eds.), Emprises. [French only 🇫🇷]

Articles published by invitation of the editorial team

  1. Davret J. & Pourinet L. (2025). Cartographie critique et interactive: Lever les biais avec CartABl. Mappemonde. Revue trimestrielle sur l’image géographique et les formes du territoire, 140. https://doi.org/10.4000/15e3o [French only 🇫🇷]
  2. Davret J. (2024) Deconstructing marine maps: revealing map-making choices through fishing and pleasure boating, L’atlas Bleu, Revue cartographique des mers et des littoraux. https://doi.org/10.35109/atlasbleu-fr.10048
  3. Davret J. (2024) La partie immergée de l’information géographique : Analyse critique à travers le cas de la planification maritime, Carnets de géographes. https://doi.org/10.4000/12suu [French only 🇫🇷]
  4. Davret J. (submitted) La partie immergée de l’information géographique : Analyse critique à travers le cas de la planification maritime, Cartes & Géomatiques [numéro special : thèses en cartographie et géomatique 2023-2026]. [French only 🇫🇷]

NON PEER REVIEWED WORK

Policy papers & Research reports

  1. Davret J., Kayanan C.M., Kitchin R. & Mutter S. (2023) Data flows in the Irish planning system. Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute for CCMA Housing, Building and Land Use Committee’s Planning Data Working Group. p. 50.
  2. Davret J. (2023) La partie immergée de l’information géographique : analyse critique à travers le cas de la planification maritime, Ph.D. Thesis, Nantes University. p. 440. [Monograph] [French only 🇫🇷]
  3. Davret J. (2022) Synthèse de restitution : Série d’ateliers participatifs sur le rôle de la cartographie dans la planification spatiale maritime, Nantes University. p. 15. [Report] [French only 🇫🇷]
  4. Guyot-Téphany J., Davret J., Petrovitch S. & Trouillet B. (2022) La participation du grand public à la planification spatiale marine en France : analyse de la participation et des contributions en ligne et recommandations de simplification, Nantes University. p. 35.  [Report] [French only 🇫🇷]
  5. Brunel A., Davret J., Trouillet B., Bez N., Salvetat J., Gicquel A. & Lanco Bertrand S. (2021) Opening the black box of decision support tools in marine spatial planning: shedding light into reserve site selection algorithms for a balanced empowerment of stakeholders. [Preprint]
  6. Davret J. & Noucher M. (in prep.) Géonumérisation du Monde : infrastructures, pratique et enjeux politiques. Revue Politique et Parlementaire [French only 🇫🇷]

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Early Career Editorial Board Member of Digital Geography & Society

Special Issue

  1. Davret J., Kayanan C.M., Shelton T. & Kitchin R. (forthcoming) Critical Reflection on Housing Data, International Jounal of Housing Policy
  2. Davret J., Spooner C., Bonde Thylstrup N. & Veel K. (in prep.) Methods Unbound: Creative Approaches to Data Cultures, Culture Unbound

Book

  1. Kayanan C.M., Davret J., Dawkins O. & Kitchin R. Creatively Researching Place: Critical Reflections on Research-Creation and Arts-Based Methods, Bristol University Press

Reviewer for: Big Data & Society – Environmental Science and Policy – Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning – Planning Theory – Privacy Studies Journal