Salah Hamdoun

Salah Hamdoun (PhD, Arizona State University) focuses on the marginalization of risk and the ways in which responses to uneven distribution of risk have shaped global development practices. His dissertation, 'The Marginalization of Risk and Resistance in Development: Tracing Human Agency in Societal Change,' conceptualizes 'vection in development' as the ways in which people experience and respond to the pace of societal transformations, particularly how communities navigate technological and economic changes that create new forms of vulnerability. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco, he examines how communities address rapid transformation and develop coping mechanisms such as remittances, migration, appropriation of space and technology, mutual aid networks, commons management, and efforts to subordinate market logic to social needs. 

He has taught undergraduate courses such as Innovation in Global Development, which focuses on development theory and practice, the impact of digital technology and markets in the Global South. Hamdoun has published 'Technology and the Formalization of the Informal Economy' (2020), 'Co-Designing the Future with Public Interest Technology' (2021), and 'AI-Based and Digital Mental Health Apps: Balancing Need and Risk' (2023). He is a former Science & Technology Studies Hub Fellow and former ASU Global Human Rights Hub Fellow.