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Overview

Mark Duffield is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly work spans multiple disciplines, intersecting fields such as sociology, political science, clinical psychology, mechanical engineering, and environmental policy. Duffield's research interests engage with topics central to rangeland management, livestock ecology, agriculture, rural development, global security, public health, and systems involving adsorption and cooling.

Their publication record includes several recent papers, illustrating an ongoing engagement with issues of political economy and regional stability. Key papers include:

  • "How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan", 2023, published in Review of African Political Economy
  • "How capitalism is destroying the Horn of Africa: sheep and the crises in Somalia and Sudan", 2024, published in Review of African Political Economy
  • "Seguridad Humana: vincular desarrollo y seguridad en una era de terror", 2020, published in Relaciones Internacionales
  • "A response to Thompson and Mohamed's accusation of being 'dead wrong'", 2025, published in Review of African Political Economy

Duffield frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Nicholas Stockton, Jie Chen, Boyang Zou, Hui Ma, and Yulong Ding. Such collaborations underscore a diverse network spanning multiple research areas.

Their publications appear predominantly in the Review of African Political Economy, with three papers published there, as well as in Relaciones Internacionales and IET conference proceedings. This range of venues shows participation in both area studies and technical, applied science forums.

Their work encompasses several subfields that reflect interdisciplinary approaches, including management, monitoring, policy and law; ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics; sociology and political science; mechanical engineering; and clinical psychology.

Main topics covered by Duffield's research include:

  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Global Security and Public Health
  • Adsorption and Cooling Systems
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Health and Conflict Studies

Best Publications

  • Global governance and the new wars : the merging of development and security

    Mark R. Duffield

  • Global governance and the new wars

    Mark R Duffield

  • The Liberal Way of Development and the Development-Security Impasse: Exploring the Global Life-Chance Divide

    Mark Duffield

  • War and Hunger: Rethinking International Responses to Complex Emergencies

    J. Macrae;A. Zwi;M. Duffield;H. Slim

  • Challenging environments: Danger, resilience and the aid industry:

    Mark Duffield

  • Social reconstruction and the radicalization of development : aid as a relation of global liberal governance.

    Mark Duffield

  • Risk-Management and the Fortified Aid Compound: Everyday Life in Post-Interventionary Society

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  • Governing the borderlands: decoding the power of aid.

    Mark Duffield

  • Complex Emergencies and the Crisis of Developmentalism

    Mark Duffield

  • Post‐modern conflict: Warlords, post‐adjustment states and private protection

    Mark Duffield

  • Getting savages to fight barbarians: development, security and the colonial present

    Mark Duffield

  • Global Civil War: The Non-Insured, International Containment and Post-Interventionary Society

    Mark Duffield

  • Securing Humans in a Dangerous World

    Mark Duffield;Nicholas Waddell

  • Conflict, the Continuum and Chronic Emergencies: A Critical Analysis of the Scope for Linking Relief, Rehabilitation and Development Planning in Sudan

    Joanna Macrae;Mark Bradbury;Susanne Jaspars;Douglas Johnson

  • NGO Relief in War Zones: Towards an Analysis of the New Aid Paradigm

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  • The resilience of the ruins: towards a critique of digital humanitarianism

    Mark Duffield

  • War as a Network Enterprise: The New Security Terrain and its Implications

    Mark Duffield

  • Total War as Environmental Terror: Linking Liberalism, Resilience, and the Bunker

    Mark Duffield

  • The Symphony of the Damned: Racial Discourse, Complex Political Emergencies and Humanitarian Aid

    Mark Duffield

  • Development, Territories, and People: Consolidating the External Sovereign Frontier

    Mark Duffield

  • NGOs disaster relief and asset transfer in the Horn: political survival in a permanent emergency.

    Mark Duffield

  • Racism, migration and development: the foundations of planetary order

    Mark Duffield

  • Aid and complicity: the case of war-displaced Southerners in the Northern Sudan

    Mark Duffield

  • Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples

    Mark R. Duffield

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony B. Zwi
Anthony B. Zwi University of New South Wales

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