Background and Current Research Interests
Sanjay Sharma took up a lecturing post in Sociology and Communications in September 2004. He has previously held teaching posts at the
University of
East London , Staffordshire, and
Manchester
University . His work is of an interdisciplinary nature, drawing on cultural, media and sociological studies approaches.
Sanjay's research is substantively located in the areas of cultural politics, racialization and difference, which critically consider questions of representation, globalization, radical pedagogy, identity and subjectivity. These interventions operate through two research thematics of 'critical multiculturalism' and 'disapora youth cultures'. In particular, his work has been concerned with bridging conceptual and political issues, especially in relation to the production of 'racialized' knowledge and representation.
Sanjay is a convenor of the Race Forum (British Sociological Association), and on the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal, Social Movement Studies. He is also co-editor of the online 'race' Journal darkmatter
At Brunel he teaches in the areas of communications, globalisation and culture, and research methods.
Selected Publications
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Sharma S (2006) Multicultural Encounters,
Basingstoke : Palgrave.
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Sharma, S. (2006). "Teaching Diversity: im/possible pedagogy." Policy Futures in Education 4(2): 203-16.
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Sharma S (2006) 'Sounds Asian', in S. Sayyid et al (eds) The Asian Nation, London:
Hurst .
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Sharma S (2004) 'The problem with multiculturalism', in I. Law et al (eds) Institutional Racism in Higher Education, Stoke on
Trent : Trentham Press.
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Sharma S (2003) 'The sounds of Alterity', in M. Bull, & L. Back (eds) The Auditory Culture Reader,
Oxford : Berg.
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Sharma S and Sharma A (2003) 'White Paranoia: Orientalism in the age of Empire', Fashion Theory, 7(4): 301-318. Special issue on Orientalism.
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Sharma S and Sharma A (2000) 'So far so good…La Haine and the Poetics of the Everyday', in Theory, Culture and Society, 17(3): 103-116.
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Housee S and Sharma S (1998) '"Too Black, Too Strong"? Anti-racism in 1990s ', in Jordan T and Lent A (eds) (1998) Storming the Millennium: The Politics of Change,
London : Lawrence and Wishart.
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Sharma S et al (eds) (1996) Dis-Orienting Rhythms: the Politics of the New Asian Dance Music,
London : Zed Books.
