Devika Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devika Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devika |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7568-7201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Art of Guilt-Tripping: A Transregional Genre of Exchange
In the Nordic region, I argue, contemporary artistic and cultural works may gain credibility and relevance by drawing on that which may be considered immoral. In particular, the immoral can be a way of injecting relevance into art projects that engage with relations to the global South; a way of signalling distance to an ethically “good” and perhaps even “humanitarian” art upon which Scandinavian publics look with distrust. I refer to this distru…
Exploring Literacy Practices in the Dalit and Women Life Narratives
In this article, I examine eight autobiographies of women and Dalits, published close to 100 years apart, with specific attention to literacy practices. Paying close attention to life narratives of the marginalized in literacy studies serves three purposes—brings the children’s experiences (home and schooling) to the centre of educational and literacy discourse, making possible reflection on silences and gaps; brings focus on pedagogy as much as …
Jharkhand Tribal Gram Sabha: Forest Governance Dynamics Under Fra 2006
Jharkhand tribal Gramme Sabha Forest governance under the 2006 Forest Rights Act (FRA) is examined in this study. A key law, the FRA, protects forest-dwelling communities, particularly indigenous tribes, from losing their ancestral lands and resources. Within the FRA 2006, the study examines the Jharkhand Tribal Gramme Sabha's effects on local communities, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable forest management. It examines tribal Gramme Sab…
Role of Stakeholders in Aspirational Districts Programme
The Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) is a unique initiative launched by the Government of India to address the prevailing socio-economic disparities across districts and foster overall development. This research paper aims to explore the role of stakeholders in effectively implementing the ADP, highlighting their significance in driving success and sustainable development. The paper also discusses the importance of stakeholder engagement, i…
‘No woman’s land’: A study of women’s land rights in context of neoliberal dispossession and gender relations in India
Given the complex web of socio-cultural factors, intersectional features of gender identity and the recent trajectories of a lack of land resources, the rise of alternative gainful employment, and a feminization of agriculture, this paper investigates whether land rights are the ultimate panacea for women’s autonomy. Land can be a source of women’s empowerment albeit the patriarchal Indian society restricts women’s right to property. Women in Ind…
The 'bad' pasts of 'good' norms: Explaining the Opium Ban Through the Postcolonial Lens
The global proscription of the opium trade and its non-medical consumption took almost a century to evolve. Within International Relations, opium's ban is explained as part of the normative order that culminated in the global anti-drugs prohibition regime of the 1900s. The conventional view presents the history of opium's ban as a 'bad' imperial and local practice discontinued through the activism of 'good' transnational actors. However, seen thr…
Det sentimentale
Skandimentalitet: "Moral og amoral i skandinavisk privilegiesensibilitet og i "The Square
Looking to Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s 2017 movie The Square, this article describes the ways in which Scandinavian privilege sensibility makes itself known as a tense reflection on, or struggle over, the value of moral sentiments such as sympathy, compassion, solicitude, and pity. In contemporary Scandinavian culture, it has become an affective habit, I suggest, to be suspicious of the moral sentiments, which will therefore typically be reg…
Gælden, gaven og geden: Om skyldnere og humanitær økonomi
This article centers on the complex relationship between debt and gifts – or, more to the point, between the neoliberal economy of debt as diagnosed by Maurizio Lazzarato, among others, and humanitarian subjectivity; Between debt government and humanitarian government. Drawing on the work of Ananya Roy and looking to objects of debt/humanitarian relief such as Greece and Haiti, I suggest that what Lazzarato terms ‘indebted man’ today co-exists in…
Skyld og skam i Skandinavien
Doing good, feeling bad: Humanitarian emotion in crisis
For decades humanitarianism has captured and shaped the dreams of the populations of the global North, dreams of a better world, of a common humanity, of goodness, of solidarity, and of global healing. In this article I argue that when taking art and cultural objects into account humanitarian reason seems however to be in some sort of crisis. Looking at the interpretation of humanitarianism undertaken by cultural artifacts such as film, theater, …
Kritikkens fortsættelse - Interview med Sianne Ngai
Oversat af Christine Strandmose Toft
Kritik på delagtighedens betingelser. Om at være et problem
In this article, I discuss the issue of critique under conditions of complicity. Complicity and privilege might be said, in some sense, always to be conditions of possibility for critical discourse. But the complicity, I consider here, is not of this general or abstract, conceptual kind. Rather, I examine a critical genre – critique under conditions of complicity – in which the critical subject is both complicit in and privileged by the system, h…
Kulturkritik nu
Structures of feeling: Affectivity and the Study of Culture
Hvem vil vi være? ”Africa for Norway” og den humanitære relation
In this article I examine a recurrent critique of humanitarianism and humanitarian phenomena, a critique centering on the presumably anti-political and emotionally complacent nature of such phenomena. But from which position, I ask, does it make sense to critique the humanitarian culture in which we live. In discussing these issues, I take as my point of departure the satirical campaign video Radi-Aid by the fictitious humanitarian NGO, Africa fo…
The Captive Imagination: Inhumanity, Animality, and Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2
Taking an outset in American artist Matthew Barney’s film Cremaster 2(1999), which is a part of the expansive work The Cremaster Cycle, this essay asks how notions of captivity reflect upon our concepts of inhumanity and animality. Captivity and confinement are in themselves favored themes of the popular imagination, but Barney’s speculative film suggests that notions of captivity also form part of the framework through which we imagine aspects o…
Turning the Outside In: Critical Histories, Reflections and Voices
Challenging the inside–outside dichotomy in international relations (IR) allows us to recognise and give voice to histories, positions, reflections, processes and actors that were invisible, marginalised or considered beyond the purview of the discipline. ‘Turning the outside in’ is not only about disrupting the long-held disciplinary boundaries but also about bringing into the mainstream that which had been overlooked or seen as epiphenomenal be…
The Color of Prison: Shared Legacies in Walter Mosley's The Man in My Basement and Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude
The Color of PrisonShared Legacies in Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude Devika Sharma (bio) No general consensus seems to exist on the precise meaning of neo-slave narrative. On the one hand, the term is applied—often mockingly so—to an African American writer’s description of his or her successful fight against discrimination, ghettoization, and poverty en route to becoming a full member of the…
Uranium Trade and its Security Implications for India
Uranium trade and the role it will play in India’s foreign policy and national security is set to grow in the coming decades. India’s interest in uranium is part of a long-term strategy to move towards a more self-sufficient and relatively carbon-free energy future. In the context of India’s fast-expanding uranium trade with, and equity investments in, key uranium producing countries, the contours of the security implications of India’s uranium d…
Mapping International Relations Teaching and Research in Indian Universities
Although the Indian International Relations (IR) community has been actively engaged in self-reflection, this has not translated into greater contribution at the international level. Part of the answer lies in the way IR in India has grown—institutionally, pedagogically, academically and as a research activity. The article seeks to assess the strengths and weaknesses of IR teaching and research in India on the basis of three parameters, that is, …
Energising ties: The politics of oil
India's growing energy needs are a key driver of commercial and diplomatic initiatives with Africa. It is also an area in which competition is rife with China and the US, but also other global players. The article details developments and production in Africa's energy sector and suggests ways that India could improve its relationship with the continent in this regard
Privilegiets Problem - Mellem Den Humanitære Og Den Kyniske Fornuft
THE PREDICAMENT OF PRIVILEGE: BETWEEN HUMANITARIAN AND CYNICAL REASON | In this article I explore a contemporary structure of feeling closely but ambivalently related to what moral anthropologist Didier Fassin has termed ”humanitarian reason”. I label this specific affective disposition ‘the predicament of privilege’. In the first part of the article I relate the predicament of privilege to various critiques of humanitarianism for being a ”feelin…
Mapping International Relations Teaching and Research in Indian Universities
Although the Indian International Relations (IR) community has been actively engaged in self-reflection, this has not translated into greater contribution at the international level. Part of the answer lies in the way IR in India has grown—institutionally, pedagogically, academically and as a research activity. The article seeks to assess the strengths and weaknesses of IR teaching and research in India on the basis of three parameters, that is, …
Doing good, feeling bad: Humanitarian emotion in crisis
For decades humanitarianism has captured and shaped the dreams of the populations of the global North, dreams of a better world, of a common humanity, of goodness, of solidarity, and of global healing. In this article I argue that when taking art and cultural objects into account humanitarian reason seems however to be in some sort of crisis. Looking at the interpretation of humanitarianism undertaken by cultural artifacts such as film, theater, …
Energising ties: The politics of oil
India's growing energy needs are a key driver of commercial and diplomatic initiatives with Africa. It is also an area in which competition is rife with China and the US, but also other global players. The article details developments and production in Africa's energy sector and suggests ways that India could improve its relationship with the continent in this regard
Privilegiets Problem - Mellem Den Humanitære Og Den Kyniske Fornuft
THE PREDICAMENT OF PRIVILEGE: BETWEEN HUMANITARIAN AND CYNICAL REASON | In this article I explore a contemporary structure of feeling closely but ambivalently related to what moral anthropologist Didier Fassin has termed ”humanitarian reason”. I label this specific affective disposition ‘the predicament of privilege’. In the first part of the article I relate the predicament of privilege to various critiques of humanitarianism for being a ”feelin…
Energising ties: The politics of oil
India's growing energy needs are a key driver of commercial and diplomatic initiatives with Africa. It is also an area in which competition is rife with China and the US, but also other global players. The article details developments and production in Africa's energy sector and suggests ways that India could improve its relationship with the continent in this regard
Mapping International Relations Teaching and Research in Indian Universities
Although the Indian International Relations (IR) community has been actively engaged in self-reflection, this has not translated into greater contribution at the international level. Part of the answer lies in the way IR in India has grown—institutionally, pedagogically, academically and as a research activity. The article seeks to assess the strengths and weaknesses of IR teaching and research in India on the basis of three parameters, that is, …
Uranium Trade and its Security Implications for India
Uranium trade and the role it will play in India’s foreign policy and national security is set to grow in the coming decades. India’s interest in uranium is part of a long-term strategy to move towards a more self-sufficient and relatively carbon-free energy future. In the context of India’s fast-expanding uranium trade with, and equity investments in, key uranium producing countries, the contours of the security implications of India’s uranium d…
Turning the Outside In: Critical Histories, Reflections and Voices
Challenging the inside–outside dichotomy in international relations (IR) allows us to recognise and give voice to histories, positions, reflections, processes and actors that were invisible, marginalised or considered beyond the purview of the discipline. ‘Turning the outside in’ is not only about disrupting the long-held disciplinary boundaries but also about bringing into the mainstream that which had been overlooked or seen as epiphenomenal be…
The Color of Prison: Shared Legacies in Walter Mosley's The Man in My Basement and Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude
The Color of PrisonShared Legacies in Walter Mosley’s The Man in My Basement and Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude Devika Sharma (bio) No general consensus seems to exist on the precise meaning of neo-slave narrative. On the one hand, the term is applied—often mockingly so—to an African American writer’s description of his or her successful fight against discrimination, ghettoization, and poverty en route to becoming a full member of the…
Structures of feeling: Affectivity and the Study of Culture
Hvem vil vi være? ”Africa for Norway” og den humanitære relation
In this article I examine a recurrent critique of humanitarianism and humanitarian phenomena, a critique centering on the presumably anti-political and emotionally complacent nature of such phenomena. But from which position, I ask, does it make sense to critique the humanitarian culture in which we live. In discussing these issues, I take as my point of departure the satirical campaign video Radi-Aid by the fictitious humanitarian NGO, Africa fo…
The Captive Imagination: Inhumanity, Animality, and Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 2
Taking an outset in American artist Matthew Barney’s film Cremaster 2(1999), which is a part of the expansive work The Cremaster Cycle, this essay asks how notions of captivity reflect upon our concepts of inhumanity and animality. Captivity and confinement are in themselves favored themes of the popular imagination, but Barney’s speculative film suggests that notions of captivity also form part of the framework through which we imagine aspects o…
Kritikkens fortsættelse - Interview med Sianne Ngai
Oversat af Christine Strandmose Toft
Kritik på delagtighedens betingelser. Om at være et problem
In this article, I discuss the issue of critique under conditions of complicity. Complicity and privilege might be said, in some sense, always to be conditions of possibility for critical discourse. But the complicity, I consider here, is not of this general or abstract, conceptual kind. Rather, I examine a critical genre – critique under conditions of complicity – in which the critical subject is both complicit in and privileged by the system, h…
Kulturkritik nu
Doing good, feeling bad: Humanitarian emotion in crisis
For decades humanitarianism has captured and shaped the dreams of the populations of the global North, dreams of a better world, of a common humanity, of goodness, of solidarity, and of global healing. In this article I argue that when taking art and cultural objects into account humanitarian reason seems however to be in some sort of crisis. Looking at the interpretation of humanitarianism undertaken by cultural artifacts such as film, theater, …
Gælden, gaven og geden: Om skyldnere og humanitær økonomi
This article centers on the complex relationship between debt and gifts – or, more to the point, between the neoliberal economy of debt as diagnosed by Maurizio Lazzarato, among others, and humanitarian subjectivity; Between debt government and humanitarian government. Drawing on the work of Ananya Roy and looking to objects of debt/humanitarian relief such as Greece and Haiti, I suggest that what Lazzarato terms ‘indebted man’ today co-exists in…
Skyld og skam i Skandinavien
Skandimentalitet: "Moral og amoral i skandinavisk privilegiesensibilitet og i "The Square
Looking to Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s 2017 movie The Square, this article describes the ways in which Scandinavian privilege sensibility makes itself known as a tense reflection on, or struggle over, the value of moral sentiments such as sympathy, compassion, solicitude, and pity. In contemporary Scandinavian culture, it has become an affective habit, I suggest, to be suspicious of the moral sentiments, which will therefore typically be reg…
Det sentimentale
Jharkhand Tribal Gram Sabha: Forest Governance Dynamics Under Fra 2006
Jharkhand tribal Gramme Sabha Forest governance under the 2006 Forest Rights Act (FRA) is examined in this study. A key law, the FRA, protects forest-dwelling communities, particularly indigenous tribes, from losing their ancestral lands and resources. Within the FRA 2006, the study examines the Jharkhand Tribal Gramme Sabha's effects on local communities, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable forest management. It examines tribal Gramme Sab…
Role of Stakeholders in Aspirational Districts Programme
The Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) is a unique initiative launched by the Government of India to address the prevailing socio-economic disparities across districts and foster overall development. This research paper aims to explore the role of stakeholders in effectively implementing the ADP, highlighting their significance in driving success and sustainable development. The paper also discusses the importance of stakeholder engagement, i…
‘No woman’s land’: A study of women’s land rights in context of neoliberal dispossession and gender relations in India
Given the complex web of socio-cultural factors, intersectional features of gender identity and the recent trajectories of a lack of land resources, the rise of alternative gainful employment, and a feminization of agriculture, this paper investigates whether land rights are the ultimate panacea for women’s autonomy. Land can be a source of women’s empowerment albeit the patriarchal Indian society restricts women’s right to property. Women in Ind…
The 'bad' pasts of 'good' norms: Explaining the Opium Ban Through the Postcolonial Lens
The global proscription of the opium trade and its non-medical consumption took almost a century to evolve. Within International Relations, opium's ban is explained as part of the normative order that culminated in the global anti-drugs prohibition regime of the 1900s. The conventional view presents the history of opium's ban as a 'bad' imperial and local practice discontinued through the activism of 'good' transnational actors. However, seen thr…
The Art of Guilt-Tripping: A Transregional Genre of Exchange
In the Nordic region, I argue, contemporary artistic and cultural works may gain credibility and relevance by drawing on that which may be considered immoral. In particular, the immoral can be a way of injecting relevance into art projects that engage with relations to the global South; a way of signalling distance to an ethically “good” and perhaps even “humanitarian” art upon which Scandinavian publics look with distrust. I refer to this distru…
Exploring Literacy Practices in the Dalit and Women Life Narratives
In this article, I examine eight autobiographies of women and Dalits, published close to 100 years apart, with specific attention to literacy practices. Paying close attention to life narratives of the marginalized in literacy studies serves three purposes—brings the children’s experiences (home and schooling) to the centre of educational and literacy discourse, making possible reflection on silences and gaps; brings focus on pedagogy as much as …
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