Mark Drury

Student Fellow

Mark Drury is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the Graduate Center. He recently returned from fieldwork in Morocco, Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, and Mauritania, where his research focused on the political projects that have been generated at various historical moments throughout the process of decolonizing the Sahara. He has taught anthropology at Hunter College.

Participating Years

2015–2016

Dialectics of Autonomy and Dependence

Self-determination had a heady run in the 20th century, instanced by both revolutionary assertion and homogenizing mimicry. But what is autonomy now? What is dependence? How are these conditions of existence necessarily related – as contradictory rather than contrasting ideologies, representations, relations, outcomes? What forms reveal the dialectic at work? What forms disguise or displace the dynamic?