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Devika Rege: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textDevika Rege is a writer from India. Her debut novel, Quarterlife, is a political bildungsroman set in a time of rising Hindu nationalism. First published in South Asia, it was hailed as a landmark novel by The Indian Express. It was also a finalist for five literary awards and won the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award and the Ramnath Goenka Sahitya Samman for Best Fiction. It has recently been launched in North America by W.W. Norton and will be released worldwide in 2025. Devika Rege is a graduate of the universities of Mumbai and Iowa, and lives in Bengaluru
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UN-Accountable? A response to Devika Hovell
No full textDevika Hovell has provided an excellent call to arms for academics to move beyond the question of
whether the United Nations has due process deficiencies: By now we all know that it does. She invites us to
focus instead on making “the normative case for adopting due process safeguards in UN decision making,”
insisting that until now scholars have failed to ask the important theoretical questions underpinning their
policy research.1 Hovell uses two case studies to demonstrate why resort to judicial mechanisms ought not to
be the answer when seeking to find ways to ensure due process. She first focuses on targeted sanctions and
then turns attention to cholera in Haiti.
While I agree with the normative conclusions in this article, and agree that there ought to be greater focus
on theory, in this short piece I shall make several points that demonstrate that the Haiti case study is more
complex than Hovell’s account suggests
The power of process ::the value of due process in Security Council sanctions decision-making /
No full textExamining the legal principles behind UN Security Council sanctions, Devika Hovell questions whether due process is afforded to sanctioned individuals in the context of the politics and crises that form the heart of the council's decision-making
Justice at Guantanamo? The paradox of David Hicks
No full textWriting for the Jurist website, Devika Hovell says that the trial of Guantanamo detainee David Hicks by US military commission highlights his transformation from an alleged perpetrator of war crimes into a possible victim of one
The ethics of des seva: Hindu nationalism, tribal leadership and modes of sociality in Rajasthan
No full textBased on fieldwork in Udaipur district in Rajasthan, this article examines how Bhil tribal leaders of the Vanvasi Kalyan Parishad (VKP), a branch of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist organisation, profess an ethic of des seva, or work and care for the nation, while describing their work with the VKP. Focusing on the VKP and RSS campaigns to Ayodhya in 1990 and 1992 and to the Shabari Kumbh in 2006, I examine the shifts in the political and ethical repertoires that shape tribal VKP fieldworkers' modalities of action and forms of self-making during travel at these different moments in time. During these campaigns, non-tribal leaders sought to discipline tribal leaders, referring to historically constructed ideas and practices about the civilisational inferiority of tribals, in order to show that they can never properly engage in des seva. The article draws on incidents from these two campaigns in order to show how tribal leaders fashion themselves in relation to how others believe they should behave, and reveals some of the ways in which tribals inhabit, resist and revise the ideas and practices of Hindu nationalism
Three Essays on Early Stage Entrepreneurial Teams: Formation, Evolution and Configurations
No full textIn recent years, there has been an increasing interest in early-stage entrepreneurial team formation.Despite the importance placed by scholars through scientific and anecdotal evidence on the importance of entrepreneurial team formation decisions, team formation decisions are often overlooked in favor of understanding and bettering decisions about business ideas.Moreover, such studies often treat idea and team formation decisions as silos, while in reality, they often interact and could potentially explain differences in startup outcomes.Given the importance of human capital on startup outcomes, it is crucial to understand how entrepreneurial teams are formed and how we could form better teams.The uncertainty inherent in the startup process adds complexity and dynamism to such decisions; the cost of decision errors could be fatal mainly due to the resource constraints that early-stage startups often face. By exploring how entrepreneurs could make better team formation decisions, how decisions about the idea affect team formation, and how the idea and team co-evolve, I aim to contribute to entrepreneurial team formation and, more broadly, to early-stage entrepreneurship literature.In the first paper, A Scientific Approach to Entrepreneurial Founding Team Formation, I conceptualize a process called ‘Team Validation’ by applying a structured decision-making framework called the entrepreneurs-as-scientists approach to entrepreneurial founding team formation.Through a conceptual model, I suggest that implementing this structured process will reduce decision errors in team formation decision-making through a better understanding of team requirements and improved skills-requirements fit, which could enhance the resource efficiency of the team and, thereby, the startup.In the second paper, Scientific Training and Entrepreneurial Team Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Colombia, I investigate if and how scientific training given to make decisions about business ideas affects team formation decisions in early-stage startups.Through statistical modeling and graphical descriptive analyses, I theorize and test these secondary effects and explore the mechanisms and reasons for such ripple effects.In this paper, I find evidence that scientific training in making decisions about ideas affects team formation decisions.Specifically, I find that scientific training on decision-making about entrepreneurial ideas leads to a higher likelihood and a greater number of team changes.This effect is fully mediated by idea pivots by entrepreneurs. My findings are based on data from an RCT conducted in Bogota, Colombia, involving 207 startups.In the third paper, Configurations of Idea-Team Co-evolution in Early-Stage Startups Trained with the Theory-and-Evidence-Based Approach, I explore descriptively how entrepreneurs trained with the theory-and-evidence-based approach impact solo entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial teams differently based on the differences in configurations of idea and team changes.Preliminary evidence of descriptive analysis, based on data collected from an RCT conducted in Colombia, suggests that, while solo entrepreneurs more often engage in change to both teams and ideas at the same time than teams of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial teams show a higher frequency of not changing either team or idea compared to solo entrepreneurs.These initial findings suggest that solo entrepreneurs make larger, resource-intensive changes than entrepreneurial teams, with all solo entrepreneurs making at least one change, which could mean earlier stabilization of the idea and team. But more entrepreneurial teams exhibit some level of “stickiness” of ideas and teams by making no changes within the entire observational window, which could mean they may miss out on a better idea because they were unwilling to search outside the boundaries of team capabilities or the new idea may be executed inefficiently with a mismatched team
Book review: in a deeply patriarchal world, Devika Rani managed to stay her course
No full textFrom a large volume of documents, combined with recollections from individuals and ephemera, Kishwar Desai has created a dramatised biography of the film star in 'The Longest Kiss: The Life and Times of Devika'
Chinks in the armour: international law, terrorism and the use of force
No full textIs terrorism such a radical new threat that it necessitates a reinvention, or even abandonment, of the current international legal order? Devika Hovell examines this question through an examination of recent forceful responses to terrorism, placing contemporary policies for the use of counter-terrorist force in their historical and legal context and, to the extent they diverge from the current legal framework, considering whether they create the foundation for a new international legal order
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