Sanjay Sharma

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 located in the areas of cultural politics, racialization and difference, which critically consider questions of representation, radical pedagogy, identity and subjectivity. These interventions operate through two research thematics of 'critical multiculturalism' and 'technologies of race'. In particular, his work has been concerned with bridging conceptual and political issues, especially in relation to the production of racialized knowledge and material culture.

Sanjay is on the Advisory Editorial Board of the journal, Subjectivity, and member of the academic forum of The Runnymede Trust. He is a founding editor of the Journal darkmatter.

Research Interests

Critical multiculturalism; Anti-racism; Race and Technology; Radical Pedagogy; New Media

PhD Supervision

Race and representation; anti-racism; critical multiculturalism; identity and subjectivity; new media and social networks.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2011) Sharma, S., Unravelling difference: a sensory multiculture, Senses and Society 6 (3) : 284- 305

(2010) Sharma, S., 'Crash' - Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Whiteness?, Cultural Studies 24 (4) : 533- 552

(2009) Sharma, S., Teaching British South Asian cinema - towards a 'materialist' reading practice, Journal of South Asian Popular Culture 7 (1) : 21- 35

(2008) Papadopoulos, D. and Sharma, S., Editorial: Race/matter - materialism and the politics of racialization, darkmatter Journal Issue 2

(2006) Sharma, S., Teaching Diversity: im/possible pedagogy, Policy Futures in Education 4 (2)

(2003) Sharma, S. and Sharma, A., White paranoia: Orientalism in the age of empire, Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture 7 (3-4) : 301- 317

Book Chapters

(2010) Sharma, S., Critical Multiculturalism and Cultural and Media Studies. In: May, S. ed. Critical Multiculturalism. Routledge -

(2009) Puwar, N. and Sharma, S., Short-circuiting the production of knowledge. In: Towards a Global Autonomous University: Cognitive Labor, The Production of Knowledge and Exodus from the Education Factory, edited by The Edu-Factory Collective. New York : Autonomedia

(2008) Sharma, S., Teaching representations of cultural difference through film. In: Pollock, M. ed. Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School. New York : New Press 186- 190

(2006) Sharma, S., 'Sounds Asian'. In: Sayyid, S., Ali, N. and Kalra, V. eds. A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain. London : Hurst

(2004) SHARMA, S., 'The problem with multiculturalism'. In: al, ILE. ed. Institutional Racism in Higher Education. Trentham Press

(2004) Sharma, S., Transforming the curriculum? the problem with multiculturalism. In: Law, I., Phillips, D. and Turney, L. eds. Institutional racism in higher education. Stoke-on Trent: Trentham Books 105- 117

(2003) Sharma, S., The sounds of alterity. In: Bull, M. and Back, L. eds. The auditory culture reader. Oxford: Berg 409- 418

Books

(2006) Sharma, S., Multicultural encounters. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

(1996) Sharma, S., Dis-orienting Rhythms: The Politics of the New Asian Dance Music. Zed books