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Scholarship

"Observed Participation: Sousveillance and Human Rights Activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara."

American Ethnologist (forthcoming).

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"Anticolonial Irredentism: the Moroccan Liberation Army and Decolonisation in the Sahara." 

The Journal of North African Studies 29, no. 2 (March 3, 2024): 228–54.

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“Stranded in Decolonization: The Attritional Temporality of Human Rights Activism in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.”

In In the Meantime: Toward an Anthropology of the Possible, Adeline Masquelier and Deborah Durham, eds. 91-114. New York: Berghahn Books.

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“Naming the City: Saharan Urbanization and Disaggregated Sovereignty.”

Cahiers L’Ouest Saharien 17 (February 9, 2023): 39–65.

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“Disidentification with Nationalist Conflict: Loyalty and Mobility in Moroccan-Occupied Western Sahara.”

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Special Issue “Loyalty and Critique,” 40, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 133–49.

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“On the Border in Northern Mauritania.”

L’Année Du Maghreb, no. 21 (December 10, 2019): 325–40.

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“‘Home Is Knocking on the Mind’: Decolonization, Translation and the Poetics of Longing for Western Sahara.”

CELAAN: Review of the Center for the Studies of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa XV, no. 2-3 Special Issue: Sahara and Identity (Fall 2018): 31–72.

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“Global Futures and Government Towns: Phosphates and the Production of Western Sahara as a Space of Contention.”

The Arab World Geographer / Le Géographe Du Monde Arabe 16, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 101–24.

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For links to all published scholarship, click HERE.

Public Essays​

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“Sahrawi Self-Determination, Trump’s Tweet and the Politics of Recognition in Western Sahara.” Middle East Report Online, December 22, 2020.

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“Security Vans of Laâyoune.” Jadaliyya - جدلية, September 3, 2019.

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“On the Rabouni Woven Panel.” Insecurities MoMA exhibit blog, February 1, 2017.

Research and writing on the Western Sahara conflict, the historiography of decolonization in northwest Africa,
transnational human rights activism, and surveillance.

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