Dawn Chatty
Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration; Director, RSC
Bio
Professor 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.
Professor Chatty 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.
Following the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, Professor Chatty spent the period October 2005 - September 2007 researching and writing a manuscript on Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East. The volume was published by Cambridge University Press (May 2010) with the title Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East
Publications
Chatty, D. (2011) Social Cohesion in an Impermanent Landscape: Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Arab Middle East. In Panayi, P. and Virdee, P. (eds.) Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration during the Twentieth Century, London: Routledge
Chatty, D. and Mansour, N. (2011) Unlocking Protracted Displacement: An Iraqi Case Study, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol 30 (4):50-83
Chatty, D. (2010) Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Chatty, D. (2010) Introduction: Bedouin in Lebanon: Migration, Settlement, Health Care and Policy, International Journal of MIgration Health and Social Care 6(3):19-20
Chatty, D. (2010) Bedouin in Lebanon: The Transformation of a Way of Life or an Attitude? International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care
Chatty, D (ed) (2010) Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press
Chatty, D. (2010) Introduction: Deterritorialized Youth: Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East. In Chatty, D (ed.) Deterritorialized Youth: Afghan and Sahrawi Refugee Young People at the Margins of the Middle East. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press
Chatty, D. (2010) Identity With/out Territory: Sahrawi refugees in Transnational Space with E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and G. Crivello. In Chatty, D (ed.) Deterritorialized Youth: Afghan and Sahrawi Refugee Young People at the Margins of the Middle East. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press, June 2010
Chatty, D and Finlayson, B. (eds) (2010) Dispossession and Displacement: Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Chatty, D. (2010) Introduction to Forced Migration in the Middle East and Epilogue, Chatty D and B Finlayson (eds.) Dispossession and Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Chatty, D. (2010) Palestinian Refugee Youth: Agency and Aspiration, Refugee Studies Quarterly, 28(2-3): 318-338, 2010
Chatty, D. (2009) The Bedouin in Contemporary Syria, Middle East Journal, 64(1): 29-49
Chatty, D. (2009) Rituals of Royalty and the Elaboration of Ceremony in Oman: View from the Edge, International Journal of Middle East Studies, (41)1: 39-58
Chatty, D. (2009) Los Jovenes: Refugiados Palestinos, Revista De Análisis Y Debate Sobre Oriente Próximo Y El Meditarráneo’, 2: 53-64
Chatty, D. (2008) Report on the Conference: Forced Migration and Dispossession in the Middle East, Journal of the British Academy
Chatty, D. (2008) and T Sternberg, ‘Mobile Indigenous People’, Forced Migration Review, Issue 31: 25-26
Chatty, D. (2007) Researching refugee youth in the Middle East: reflections on the importance of comparative research, Journal of Refugee Studies, 19(2): 265-280
Chatty, D. (2007) Mobile peoples: pastoralists and herders at the beginning of the 21st Century, Reviews in Anthropology, 36(1)
Chatty, D. (2007) Tribal structures in the Badia of Syria: alternative perceptions of authority, management and control in B Dupret, Z Ghazzal and Y Courbage (eds), La Syrie Au Présent, Paris: Actes Sud Sindbad
Chatty, D and G Hundt (eds), Atfal Filastiin wa Al-Hijra:Al-‘Aish fi Zull al-Hijra al-Qasriyyah fi Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (Children of Palestine), Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies and Arab Resource Collective, 2007
Chatty, D (ed), Nomadic societies in the Middle East and North Africa: entering the 21st century, Leiden: Brill, 2006
Chatty, D, ‘Adapting to biodiversity conservation: the mobile pastoral Harasiis’ in A Kapiszewski, A Al-Salmi and A Pikulski (eds), Modern Oman: Studies in Politics, Economy and Environment, Wydawca: Kscagarnia Akademicka, 2006
Chatty, D, ‘Building schools for mobile people: the Harasiis in the Sultanate of Oman’ in C Dyer (ed), The Education of Nomadic Peoples: Issues, Provision and Prospects, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Press, 213-231, 2006
Chatty, D, ‘Introduction’ in D Chatty (ed), Nomadic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century, Leiden: Brill, 2006
Chatty, D, 'Multinational oil exploitation and social investment: mobile pastoralists in the Sultanate of Oman' in D Chatty (ed), Nomadic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century, Leiden: Brill. 2006
Chatty, D, ‘Assumptions of Degradation and Misuse: The Bedouin in the Syrian Badia’ in D Chatty (ed), Nomadic Societies of the Middle East and North Africa: Facing the 21st Century, Leiden: Brill, 2006
Dawn, C, G Crivello and G Lewando Hundt, ‘Theoretical and methodological challenges of studying refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa: young Palestinian, Afghan and Sahrawi refugees’, Journal of Refugee Studies, 18(4): 387-409, 2005
Chatty, D and G Hundt (eds), Children of Palestine: experiencing forced migration in the Middle East, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2005
Chatty, D and R Farah, ‘Palestinian Refugees’ Encyclopaedia entry in M Gibney and R Hansen (eds), Migration and Asylum: From 1900 to the Present, Oxford and Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 2005
Chatty, D, S Baas and A Fleig, Participatory processes towards co-management of natural resources in pastoral areas of the Middle East: A training of trainers source book, Rome: FAO, 2004
Chatty, D, G Hundt, A Thabet and H Abuateya, ‘Advocating multi-disciplinarity in studying complex emergencies: the limitations of a psychological approach to understanding how young people cope with prolonged conflict in Gaza’, Journal of Biosocial Science, 36(4): 417-31, 2004
Chatty, D, ‘Environmentalism in the Syrian Badia: the assumptions of degradation, protection and Bedouin misuse’ in D Anderson and E Berglund (eds), Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2003
Chatty, D, (ed), ‘Mobile peoples and conservation: an introduction’, Special Issue of the Journal of Nomadic Peoples and supplement to the Journal of Biological Conservation, 7(1): np, BIOC 13(2): np, 2003
Chatty, D and R Joubert (eds), ‘Alternative perceptions of authority and control: the desert and the Ma’moura of Syria’, Special Edition of The Arab World Geographer, 5(2), 2002
Chatty, D and M Colchester (eds), Conservation and mobile indigenous peoples: displacement, forced settlement, and sustainable development, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002
Chatty, D, ‘L’activité féminine en Oman: entre choix individual et contraintes culturelles’ in M Lavergne and B Dumortier (eds), L’Oman Contemporain: État, Territoire, Identité, Paris: Karthala Press, 2002
Chatty, D, ‘Disseminating findings from research with Palestinian children and adolescents’ Forced Migration Review, Issue 15: 40-43, 2002
Chatty, D, ‘Adapting to multinational oil exploration: the mobile pastoralists of Oman’ in S Leder and B Streck (eds), Mitteilungen des SFB Differenz und Integration: Nomadismus aus der Perspektiveder Begrifflichkeit, Centre for Oriental Studies (OWZ), Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, 2002
Chatty, D, ‘Animal reintroduction projects in the Middle East: conservation without a human face’ in D Chatty and M Colchester (eds), Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002
Chatty, D, ‘Introduction: conservation and mobile peoples’ in D Chatty and M Colchester (eds), Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement, and Sustainable Development, Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2002
Chatty, D, ‘Mobile peoples and conservation’, Anthropology Today, 18(4): 1-2, 2002
Chatty, D, ‘Harasiis marriage, divorce and companionship’ in D Bowen and E Early (eds), Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East (revised edition), Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001
Chatty, D, ‘Bedouin economics and the modern wage market: the case of the Harasiis of Oman’, Nomadic Peoples, 4(2), June 2001
Chatty, D and A Rabo (eds), Tanthiim Al-Nisa’: Al-Jamaa’aat al-Nisaiya al-Rasmiya wa Ghayr al-Rasmiya fii al-Sharaq al-Awsat, Damascus: Al Mada Press, 2001
Chatty, D, ‘Integrating participation into research and consultancy: a conservation example from Arabia’, Social Policy and Administration, 34(4): 408-418, December 2000
Chatty, D and A Rabo (eds), Organising women: informal and formal women’s groups in the Middle East, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1997
Chatty, D, Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996
Further Information
Projects with which Dr Chatty is affiliated:
www.nomadicpeoples.info
www.danadeclaration.org
www.nomadsinoman.com
www.bedouinhealth.org
+44 (0)1865 281715
dawn.chatty@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.dawnchatty.com
Current projects:
Mobile peoples and conservation
Mobile peoples and the politics of oil
Improving access to and quality of healthcare for marginal peoples: The Bedouin of Lebanon
Unlocking crises of protracted displacement for refugees and internally displaced persons
Dispossession and forced migration in the Middle East: Community cohesion in an impermanent landscape
Iraq’s refugees: Predicaments, perceptions and aspirations
Children in armed conflict and prolonged displacement
Associated events:
North Africa in transition: Mobility, forced migration and humanitarian crises
Mobile peoples and conservation: crossing the disciplinary divide
Nomads, Territoriality and Mobility
Palestinian Refugees
Protracted Crises: Iraqi Refugees
Refugees, exiles and other forced migrants in the late Ottoman Empire
Palestinian refugees and international law
Regional presentation of Forced Migration Policy Briefing 4: Iraq's refugees - beyond 'tolerance'
Dispossession and displacement: Forced migration in the Middle East and Africa
Unlocking Protracted Displacement of Refugees and IDPs: Somali and Iraqi displacements and policy responses
