Haroon's devlog

It has been my unfortunate experience, too many times in my life, to be judged by my name, my (apparent) ethnicity, and even (less apparentl...

Here in Canada the discourse of human rights is ever-present. My own University has a senior management appointment that has the specific ta...

It really is quite remarkable who the financial and political elite have turned to in order to understand the ongoing crisis. Two economist...

Readers of this weblog will know that the global financial crisis of the past 3 weeks has, in my view, fundamentally changed the landscape o...

The past 3 weeks have been a period of intense scholarly activity for me; a period that has deeply reminded me why I do the work that I do. ...

People who study or work in international development studies often tend to start from an action-oriented, activist and advocacy perspective...

My undergraduate students commonly seem to think that the world doesn't change very much. Yet last week, between 14 September and 18 Se...