Books & other volumes
Eleanor Davey, Lioba Hirsch, Myfanwy James, and Molly Naisanga (2024). In Service of Emergency: Understanding Power and Inequality in MSF. MSF UK.
Eleanor Davey (2015). Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988. Cambridge University Press. Paperback edition 2018.
Joint recipient of International Studies Association Ethics Section Book Award, 2017.
Eleanor Davey and Kim Scriven, eds (2015). Aid in the Archives: Academic Histories for a Practitioner Audience. Special issue of Disasters, vol. 39, no. S2.
Reflection & commentary
Eleanor Davey (2024). “A critical reflection on humanitarian reform – past, present, future,” workshop report, Alameda Institute, November.
Eleanor Davey, Fernando Espada and Kim Scriven (2024). “Humanitarian reform beyond the mega crisis,” Humanitarian Practice Network, 10 September.
Eleanor Davey and Fernando Espada (2024). “When the world of emergency met the climate crisis“, Alameda Institute, 13 June.
Eleanor Davey (2024). “The road from La Mancha: Narratives of failure and institutional reform” blog, 22 March 2024, MSF CRASH (Centre de réflexion sur l’action et les savoirs humanitaires). Version française ici.
Eleanor Davey (2022). “Thinking principles through the past”, published as annex to workshop summary: “Internal coherence in the efforts of humanitarian organizations to operate in accordance with humanitarian principles during armed conflict”, International Security Programme and International Law Programme at Chatham House. Part of the project Sanguine Mirage: The False Comfort of the “Humanitarian Imperative”.
Eleanor Davey, Jessica Hawkins, and Róisín Read (2021). “Violence in the Classroom: Navigating Trauma in Humanitarian Studies,” in Experiencing Violence, British Academy Essay Collection.
Eleanor Davey (2019). “Life in Stasis: Behrouz Boochani’s Manus Prison Literature,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 18 May.
Matthew Hilton, Emily Baughan, Eleanor Davey, Bronwen Everill, Kevin O’Sullivan, and Tehila Sasson (2018). “History and Humanitarianism: A Conversation,” Past & Present, vol. 241, no. 1, pp. e1–e38.
Eleanor Davey (2016). “L’action humanitaire au-delà des French doctors / Humanitarian action beyond the French Doctors,” Alternatives Humanitaires / Humanitarian Alternatives, vol.1, February.
Eleanor Davey and Kim Scriven (2015). “Humanitarian aid in the archives: introduction,” Disasters, vol. 39, no. S2, pp. S113-28.
Journal articles & book chapters
Eleanor Davey (2021). “The conscience of the island? The NGO moment in Australian offshore detention,” in Amidst the Debris: Humanitarianism and the End of Liberal Order, ed. Juliano Fiori, Fernando Espada, Andrea Rigon, Bertrand Taithe and Rafia Zakaria. Hurst.
Eleanor Davey (2020). “Decolonising the Geneva Conventions: national liberation and the development of humanitarian law,” in Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics, ed. Roland Burke, Marco Duranti and A. Dirk Moses. Cambridge University Press.
Eleanor Davey (2020). “Relief, development and the Eritrean war of independence: subverting the anti-politics machine,” Histoire@Politique, 41, May-August.
Eleanor Davey (2017). “The language of ingérence: interventionist debates in France, 1970s-1990s,” in Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: Legitimizing the Use of Force since the 1970s, ed. Norbert Frei, Daniel Stahl, and Annette Weinke. Göttingen: Wallstein, pp. 46-63.
Eleanor Davey and John Borton (2015). “History and practitioners: the use of history by humanitarians and potential benefits of history to the humanitarian sector,” in The Impact of History? Histories at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century, ed. Bertrand Taithe and Pedro Ramos Pinto. Routledge, pp. 153-68.
Eleanor Davey (2014). “French adventures in solidarity: revolutionary tourists and radical humanitarians,” European Review of History, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 577-95.
Simone Haysom, Victoria Metcalf, Eleanor Davey, and Sara Pantuliano (2012). “Urban vulnerability and displacement: a review of current issues,” Disasters, vol. 36, no. S1, pp. S1-22.
Eleanor Davey (2011). “Famine, aid, and ideology: the political activism of Médecins Sans Frontières in the 1980s,” French Historical Studies, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 529-58.
Book reviews
Eleanor Davey (2018) Review of Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid in the Twentieth Century, edited by Johannes Paulmann. History, vol. 103, no. 354, pp. 167-69.
Eleanor Davey (2017). Review of The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism, by Jennifer Johnson. Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 149-51.