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Dawn Chatty is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East, particularly with nomadic pastoral tribes and refugee young people. Her research interests include a number of forced migration and development issues such as conservation-induced displacement, tribal resettlement, modern technology and social change, gender and development and the impact of prolonged conflict on refugee young people. She is both an academic anthropologist and a practitioner, having carefully developed her career in universities in the United States, Lebanon, Syria and Oman, as well as with a number of development agencies such as the UNDP, UNICEF, FAO and IFAD. After taking her undergraduate degree with honours at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), she took a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Netherlands. She returned to UCLA to take her PhD in Social Anthropology under the late Professor Hilda Kuper. She has come to Oxford from Oman, where she was Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sultan Qaboos University.
Following the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, Dr Chatty spent the period October 2005 - September 2007 researching and writing a manuscript on Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East. The volume is in production at Cambridge University Press and provisionally titled Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East.
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Current Research Projects
Mobile peoples and conservation
Mobile peoples and the politics of oil
Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East: community cohesion in an impermanent landscape
Improving access to and quality of reproductive and child health care to marginal peoples
Range enclosure on the Tibetan Plateau of China: impacts on pastoral livelihoods, marketing, livestock productivity and rangeland biodiversity
Sha’laan, Damascus: A French Mandate Quarter in Transition
Iraqi Refugees
Recent Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2010
Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East. Edited. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press, Forthcoming March, 2010
Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa. Edited with Bill Finalyson. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2010.
Atfal Filastiin wa Al-Hijra:Al-‘Aish fi Zull al-Hijra al-Qasriyyah fi Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Children of Palestine) Editor with G Hundt, Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies and Arab Resource Collective, 2007
Nomadic societies in the Middle East and North Africa: entering the 21st century Editor, Leiden: Brill, 2006
Children of Palestine: experiencing forced migration in the Middle East Edited with G. Hundt, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2005
Participatory processes towards co-management of natural resources in pastoral areas of the Middle East: a training of trainers source book based on the principles of participatory methods and approaches With S. Baas and A. Fleig, Rome: FAO, 2004
Mobile peoples and conservation: an introduction Guest Editor, Special Issue of the Journal of Nomadic Peoples and supplement to the Journal of Biological Conservation, NP Vol. 7(1), BIOC Vol. 13(2), 2003
Alternative perceptions of authority and control: the desert and the Ma’moura of Syria Guest editor with R. Joubert. Special Edition of The Arab World Geographer, Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2002
Conservation and mobile indigenous peoples: displacement, forced settlement, and sustainable development. Edited with M. Colchester. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002
Tanthiim Al-Nisa’: Al-Jamaa’aat al-Nisaiya al-Rasmiya wa Ghayr al-Rasmiya fii al-Sharaq al-Awsat.With A. Rabo (eds) Damascus: Al Mada Press, 2001
Organising women: informal and formal women’s groups in the Middle East. Edited with A. Rabo. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1997
Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996
Chapters, Articles and Papers
2009 Palestinian Refugee Youth: Agency and Aspiration. In Refugee Studies Quarterly , forthcoming
2009 Rituals of Royalty and the Elaboration of Ceremony in Oman: View from the Edge in International Journal of Middle East Studies (41) 1, 39-58.
Los Jovenes: Refugiados Palestinos, Revista De Análisis Y Debate Sobre Oriente Próximo Y El Meditarráneo. No. 2:53-64, 2009.
Report on the Conference: Forced Migration and Dispossession in the Middle East. Journal of the British Academy, Autumn, 2008.
Mobile Indigenous People (with Troy Sternberg), Forced Migration Review, issue 31 2008.
Researching refugee youth in the Middle East: reflections on the importance of comparative research Article in Journal of Refugee Studies, 19 (2), 2007
Mobile peoples: pastoralists and herders at the beginning of the 21st Century Article in Reviews in Anthropology, 36 (1), 2007
Tribal structures in the Badia of Syria: alternative perceptions of authority, management and control Chapter in B Dupret, Z Ghazzal and Y Courbage (eds) La Syrie Au Présent Paris: Actes Sud Sindbad, 2007
Adapting to biodiversity conservation: the mobile pastoral Harasiis Chapter in A Kapiszewski, A Al-Salmi and A Pikulski (eds) Modern Oman: Studies in Politics, Economy and Environment Wydawca: Kscagarnia Akademicka, 2006
Building schools for mobile people: the Harasiis in the Sultanate of Oman Chapter in The Education of Nomadic Peoples: Issues, Provision and Prospects, by C. Dyer (ed.) Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press, pp 213-231, 2006
Theoretical and methodological challenges of studying refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa: young Palestinian, Afghan and Sahrawi refugees Article with G. Crivello and G. Lewando Hundt in Journal of Refugee Studies 18 (4), pp.387-409, 2005
Introduction Chapter in Nomads of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21 st Century, by D. Chatty (ed.), Leiden: Brill. 2006
Multinational oil exploitation and social investment: mobile pastoralists in the Sultanate of Oman Chapter in Nomads of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21 st Century, by D. Chatty (ed.), Leiden: Brill. 2006
Assumptions of Degradation and Misuse: The Bedouin in the Syrian Badia Chapter in Nomads of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21 st Century, by D. Chatty (ed.), Leiden: Brill. 2006
Advocating multi-disciplinarity in studying complex emergencies: the limitations of a psychological approach to understanding how young people cope with prolonged conflict in Gaza Article with G. Hundt, A. Thabet and H. Abuateya in Journal of Biosocial Science 36 (4): 417-31, 2004
Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: the assumptions of degradation, protection and Bedouin misuse Chapter in Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege, by D. Anderson and E. Berglund (eds.). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003
L’activité féminine en Oman: entre choix individual et contraintes culturelles Chapter in L’Oman Contemporain: État, Territoire, Identité, by M. Lavergne and B. Dumortier (eds.). Paris: Karthala Press, 2002
Disseminating findings from research with Palestinian children and adolescents Article in Forced Migration Review, Issue No. 15, pp. 40-43, 2002
Adapting to multinational oil exploration: the mobile pastoralists of Oman Paper in Mitteilungen des SFB Differenz und Integration: Nomadismus aus der Perspektiveder Begrifflichkeit. Centre for Oriental Studies (OWZ) of the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, 2002
Animal reintroduction projects in the Middle East: conservation without a human face Chapter in Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development, D. Chatty and M. Colchester (eds.). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002
Introduction: conservation and mobile peoples Chapter with M. Colchester in Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development, D. Chatty and M. Colchester (eds.). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002
Harasiis marriage, divorce and companionship Chapter in Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East (revised edition), D. Bowen and E. Early (eds.). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001
Bedouin economics and the modern wage market: the case of the Harasiis of Oman Article in Nomadic Peoples, Vol. 4, Issue 2, June 2001
Integrating participation into research and consultancy: a conservation example from Arabia Article in Social Policy and Administration. Vol. 34, Issue 4, pp 408-418, December 2000
Reports and Other Publications
Palestinian refugees Encyclopaedia entry with Farah, R. in Migration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present Gibney, M. and Hansen, R. eds. Oxford and Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2005
Participatory processes towards co-management of natural resources in pastoral areas of the Middle East : A training of trainers source book with S. Baas and A. Fleig. Rome: FAO, 2004
Mobile peoples and conservation Guest editorial in Anthropology Today, Vol 18, Issue 4, pp.1-2, 2002 |