Mark Drury
Biographic Data
| ID | 99175 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Drury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Drury |
| SIGNATURE | DRURY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7423-6935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Decolonization and the Underground in Africa
Observed participation: Sousveillance and human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
From the 1990s to 2020, human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara emerged through a process of familiarization before serving a new purpose: as a nonviolent instrument in the broader struggle for Sahrawi self-determination. Over the last decade, this practice has intensified with the rise of digital video as a means of documenting street protests. In the process, human rights activism has become a kind of "sousveillance": a tactic…
Strategies of Subversion of the Kadehine in the Early Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960s-1970s)
We trace the formation of the Kadehine, a Mauritanian cultural and political movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, with a focus on aspects of the "political underground" central to the movement's strategies and organizing principles. As an anthropological history of the Kadehine, we focus on the organizing perspective afforded by its sources (largely interviews and movement literature). These sources emphasize the importance of clandestinit…
Anticolonial irredentism: The Moroccan liberation army and decolonisation in the Sahara
This paper presents an account of Jaysh al-Tahrir (Liberation Army) in the Sahara, an anticolonial insurgency from the late 1950s. Occurring after Moroccan independence, the Liberation Army’s aims were at once irredentist, in surpassing Morocco’s borders, and anticolonial, in attacking French and Spanish military outposts dotting colonial borders across the western Sahara. While histories of this movement have largely been coopted, erased, or mar…
Naming the city: Saharan urbanization and disaggregated sovereignty
En rapprochant la littérature sur les villes africaines postcoloniales des approches méthodologiques de l’histoire transsaharienne, cet article présente une histoire ethnographique de Laâyoune/El Aaiún, la plus grande ville du Sahara Occidental occupé par le Maroc. Cet article soutient que les noms de lieux vernaculaires, en se référant aux quartiers de la ville, aux projets de colonisation, aux événements historiques et aux développements de l’h…
Chapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
Politics in the Name of Humanity, Revisited
Disidentification with Nationalist Conflict
This article explores how physical movement and political mobility have been central to different forms of loyalty and critique that have historically underpinned political authority in the Sahara. After outlining several expressions of loyalty characteristic of political authority in the Sahara and their interrelationship with movement and mobility, the article focuses on the figure of the ‘a'id, or returnee, a subject position that has been pro…
On the Border in Northern Mauritania
This paper considers what the northern Mauritanian border reveals about territory, mobility and belonging across the region of western Sahara. Historical examples trace a shift from a relatively permeable frontier zone during colonialism to an increasingly fixed border during decolonization. Ethnographic examples from the border crossing of Guerguerat and the northern Mauritanian town of Nouadhibou connect to recent developments during which the …
Global, regional and local dimensions of Western Sahara's protracted decolonization: When a Conflict Gets Old
Although the Western Sahara conflict remains unresolved, it does not remain unchanged. The past two years, alone, have been witness to several developments that are nearly unprecedented in the conf
Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.‐Mexico Border. Elizabeth EmmaFerry, Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2013252 pages
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Andreina Torres, Neil Agarwal, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Linsey Ly, Zoltán Glück, Malav Kanuga, and Mark Drury
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Mark Drury, Zoltán Glück, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Andreina Torres
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, and Manissa McCleave Maharawal
2013). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, and Manissa McCleave Maharawal. Anthropology Now: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 52-58
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Emily Channell, Malav Kanuga, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Amiel Melnick, and Neil Agarwal
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Malav Kanuga, Mark Drury, Neil Agarwal, Amiel Melnick, Linsey Ly, Emily Channell, Madhuri Karak
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Mark Drury, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, Amiel Melnick, Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, and Malav Kanuga
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Mark Drury, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, Amiel Melnick, Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, and Malav Kanuga. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 60-66
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Carwil Bjork-James, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa Maharawal, and Amiel Melnick
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Carwil Bjork-James, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa Maharawal, and Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 81-88
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Carwil James, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Carwil James, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 62-68
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Carwil James, Mark Drury, Sophie Statzel, Amiel Melnick, Malav Kanuga, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, and Neil Agarwal
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Amiel Melnick, Sophie Statzel, Neil Agarwal, Carwil James, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, and Malav Kanuga
Uneven Development and Regionalism: State, Territory and Class in Southern Europe
Published in the year 1986, Uneven Development and Regionalism is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography
Uneven Development and Regionalism: State, Territory and Class in Southern Europe
Published in the year 1986, Uneven Development and Regionalism is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography
On the Border in Northern Mauritania
This paper considers what the northern Mauritanian border reveals about territory, mobility and belonging across the region of western Sahara. Historical examples trace a shift from a relatively permeable frontier zone during colonialism to an increasingly fixed border during decolonization. Ethnographic examples from the border crossing of Guerguerat and the northern Mauritanian town of Nouadhibou connect to recent developments during which the …
Global, regional and local dimensions of Western Sahara's protracted decolonization: When a Conflict Gets Old
Although the Western Sahara conflict remains unresolved, it does not remain unchanged. The past two years, alone, have been witness to several developments that are nearly unprecedented in the conf
Anticolonial irredentism: The Moroccan liberation army and decolonisation in the Sahara
This paper presents an account of Jaysh al-Tahrir (Liberation Army) in the Sahara, an anticolonial insurgency from the late 1950s. Occurring after Moroccan independence, the Liberation Army’s aims were at once irredentist, in surpassing Morocco’s borders, and anticolonial, in attacking French and Spanish military outposts dotting colonial borders across the western Sahara. While histories of this movement have largely been coopted, erased, or mar…
Observed participation: Sousveillance and human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
From the 1990s to 2020, human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara emerged through a process of familiarization before serving a new purpose: as a nonviolent instrument in the broader struggle for Sahrawi self-determination. Over the last decade, this practice has intensified with the rise of digital video as a means of documenting street protests. In the process, human rights activism has become a kind of "sousveillance": a tactic…
Uneven Development and Regionalism: State, Territory and Class in Southern Europe
Published in the year 1986, Uneven Development and Regionalism is a valuable contribution to the field of Geography
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Carwil James, Mark Drury, Sophie Statzel, Amiel Melnick, Malav Kanuga, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, and Neil Agarwal
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Amiel Melnick, Sophie Statzel, Neil Agarwal, Carwil James, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, and Malav Kanuga
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Mark Drury, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, Amiel Melnick, Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, and Malav Kanuga
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Mark Drury, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, Amiel Melnick, Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, and Malav Kanuga. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 60-66
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Carwil Bjork-James, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa Maharawal, and Amiel Melnick
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Carwil Bjork-James, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa Maharawal, and Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 81-88
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Carwil James, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick
2012). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Carwil James, Linsey Ly, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Amiel Melnick. Anthropology Now: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 62-68
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, and Manissa McCleave Maharawal
2013). CUNY Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Emily Channell, Mark Drury, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, and Manissa McCleave Maharawal. Anthropology Now: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 52-58
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Emily Channell, Malav Kanuga, Mark Drury, Linsey Ly, Amiel Melnick, and Neil Agarwal
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Malav Kanuga, Mark Drury, Neil Agarwal, Amiel Melnick, Linsey Ly, Emily Channell, Madhuri Karak
Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.‐Mexico Border. Elizabeth EmmaFerry, Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2013252 pages
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Andreina Torres, Neil Agarwal, Madhuri Karak, Manissa McCleave Maharawal, Linsey Ly, Zoltán Glück, Malav Kanuga, and Mark Drury
Cuny Graduate School Student Collective: Neil Agarwal, Mark Drury, Zoltán Glück, Malav Kanuga, Madhuri Karak, Linsey Ly, Manissa McCleave Maharawal and Andreina Torres
Global, regional and local dimensions of Western Sahara's protracted decolonization: When a Conflict Gets Old
Although the Western Sahara conflict remains unresolved, it does not remain unchanged. The past two years, alone, have been witness to several developments that are nearly unprecedented in the conf
On the Border in Northern Mauritania
This paper considers what the northern Mauritanian border reveals about territory, mobility and belonging across the region of western Sahara. Historical examples trace a shift from a relatively permeable frontier zone during colonialism to an increasingly fixed border during decolonization. Ethnographic examples from the border crossing of Guerguerat and the northern Mauritanian town of Nouadhibou connect to recent developments during which the …
Disidentification with Nationalist Conflict
This article explores how physical movement and political mobility have been central to different forms of loyalty and critique that have historically underpinned political authority in the Sahara. After outlining several expressions of loyalty characteristic of political authority in the Sahara and their interrelationship with movement and mobility, the article focuses on the figure of the ‘a'id, or returnee, a subject position that has been pro…
Politics in the Name of Humanity, Revisited
Naming the city: Saharan urbanization and disaggregated sovereignty
En rapprochant la littérature sur les villes africaines postcoloniales des approches méthodologiques de l’histoire transsaharienne, cet article présente une histoire ethnographique de Laâyoune/El Aaiún, la plus grande ville du Sahara Occidental occupé par le Maroc. Cet article soutient que les noms de lieux vernaculaires, en se référant aux quartiers de la ville, aux projets de colonisation, aux événements historiques et aux développements de l’h…
Chapter 4. Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Sahrawi Activism in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara
Anticolonial irredentism: The Moroccan liberation army and decolonisation in the Sahara
This paper presents an account of Jaysh al-Tahrir (Liberation Army) in the Sahara, an anticolonial insurgency from the late 1950s. Occurring after Moroccan independence, the Liberation Army’s aims were at once irredentist, in surpassing Morocco’s borders, and anticolonial, in attacking French and Spanish military outposts dotting colonial borders across the western Sahara. While histories of this movement have largely been coopted, erased, or mar…
Decolonization and the Underground in Africa
Observed participation: Sousveillance and human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara
From the 1990s to 2020, human rights activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara emerged through a process of familiarization before serving a new purpose: as a nonviolent instrument in the broader struggle for Sahrawi self-determination. Over the last decade, this practice has intensified with the rise of digital video as a means of documenting street protests. In the process, human rights activism has become a kind of "sousveillance": a tactic…
Strategies of Subversion of the Kadehine in the Early Islamic Republic of Mauritania (1960s-1970s)
We trace the formation of the Kadehine, a Mauritanian cultural and political movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, with a focus on aspects of the "political underground" central to the movement's strategies and organizing principles. As an anthropological history of the Kadehine, we focus on the organizing perspective afforded by its sources (largely interviews and movement literature). These sources emphasize the importance of clandestinit…
Political science (8 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (7 works) · Art (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Decolonization (4 works)