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Eleanor Davey

Historian of humanitarianism

Eleanor Davey joined the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) in 2014. From 2011-2014, she worked in the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute (HPG/ODI). She obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Melbourne and her PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. Her book Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988 was published by Cambridge University Press (2015).

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Boats

04/20/2015 Eleanor Davey

This post tells of the 'Boat for the Vietnam' episode, the MSF Search and Rescue operations to be launched in the Mediterranean and the notable absence of the Australian section of MSF from any debate on refugee policy in that country.

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Third-Worldism and Sans-Frontiérisme 1954-1988

04/11/2019 - 06:30 PM 08:30 PM Eleanor Davey

Eleanor Davey, historian of ideas and humanitarianism, senior lecturer at the Humanitarian and Conflict Research Institute, University of Manchester, discusses her book, Idealism Beyond Borders. The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988, devoted to the intellectual history of sans-frontiérisme and Third-Worldism, in France, from the Algerian war to the early years of Médecins Sans Frontières.

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