Mellese Madda Gatisso
stipendiat
Institutt for sosialantropologi
Stilling: stipendiat
Telefon: 55 58 92 50
Mobiltelefon: na
E-post: Mellese.Gatisso@sosantr.uib.no
Besøksadresse: Fosswinckelsgt. 6
My research interest and the research projects I engaged so far are related to different topics and issues. Some of these are associated with indigenous environmental knowledge and resources management practices, poverty, food security, resettlement and environmental impacts, rural development, traditional mechanisms of conflict resolution and complimentarity with the formal legal system. At the theoretical level I am interested in the analysis of how different discourses are constructed at different levels of power relationships and restructured spatially and temporally in a new way.
My PhD project tries to explore how the global discourses of poverty, tourism and conservation of national parks and the formation of environmental state affect Mursi the pastoralist people in the Omo valley, Ethiopia. It examines different forms of contestations and negotiations to control spaces involving the national state through its agents, the local people, tourists and tourism operating enterprises and conservationists through practices of protection and preservation of parks as natural environment. It questions how the Mursi perform in this contest for control and they transform through time adopting new strategies and structural formations.
Regiona:
Ethiopia, Horn of Africa
Thematic keywords:
Development, modernization, environment, conservation, social transformation, tourism
M.A in Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University, 2005
B.A in History and Heritage management, Addis Ababa University
2009. Resolving disputes through elders: the case of Walayta, southern Ethiopia. Uppsala: The Life and Peace Institute.
2008. Alternative Commercial dispute resolution in Addis Ababa: the case of Markato. In Alula Pankhurst and Getachewu Assafa (eds) Grassroots justice in Ethiopia. The contribution of customary dispute resolution. Addis Ababa: Etudes Ethiopian’s publie par le centres Francais des Ethiopiennes.
2006. Challenges of Inadequate preparation and the dilemma of ‘’voluntary’’ displacement: the case of Intra-zonal resettlement in Walayta (SNNPR). In Understanding the dynamics of resettlement in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: Forum for social studies.
Ongoing:
PhD project: "Surviving on the Edge: Exacerbation of poverty, environmental stress and uncertainty of life among Mursi South western Ethiopia", 2009/10 (on going).
Completed:
M.A project: "Promises, expectations and Realities of resettlement: the dynamics of Intra-zonal resettlement in Walayta of Southern Ethiopia", Addis Ababa University, 2005.