Sanjay Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanjay Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanjay |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2898-9925 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Rebooting artificial intelligence: Insurgent Afrofuturism and speculative design
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is hegemonically framed through the language of efficiency and scale, conditioning futures through trajectories of profit and control. This framing obscures that AI is inscribed by regimes of power, rooted in extractive colonial and racialized histories. This article explores an alternative trajectory: approaching AI not as an inevitable technology of progress driven by corporate actors, but as a political formation w…
The afterlives of Bandung
This is a short contribution I made at the final plenary on Bandung at 70 at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference in Thailand July 2025.I am located at the edges of Inter-Asia Cultural Studie...
Assessment of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Nepal: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey
Background and objectives: Anxiety and depressive symptoms among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) are growing public health concerns. Despite extensive global research on these issues among GBMSM, they are understudied in low- and middle-income settings like Nepal. Therefore, the present study focused on assessing the prevalence and associated factors of anxiety and depressive symptoms among GBMSM in Nepal. Methods A nat…
The Lahure dream: Unpacking Nepali military aspirations and masculinity
For generations, many young Nepali men have aspired to become Gurkha soldiers (Lahure), drawn by the prestige, wealth and opportunities associated with transnational military service. Focusing on memes, this paper analyses the construction of masculinity among transnational military aspirants, building on the aspirations-capabilities framework of migration. It argues, first, that memes’ emphasis on the need for building personal migration capacit…
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action
This article results from a cross-disciplinary study which unfolds the neocolonial nature of the application of AI technologies for climate action by examining the actors' network and discourses around this global practice. The study demonstrates that tech businesses from the Global North are currently leading the AI for Climate Action project, with certain non-profits and civil society organisations helping these actors to advance their core pro…
Regenerative Strategies: Exploring New Sustainable Business Models to Face the Climate Emergency
In the current climate emergency, it is no longer enough for businesses to simply employ environmental strategy typologies focused on 'greening the business' and maintaining the 'business-as-usual' logic. Gregorio Martín-de Castro and Javier Amores-Salvadó argue that disruptive business models and solutions are now required, and they propose a new regenerative strategy linking climate science to management studies. The main features of this strat…
Investigating the Impact of Covid-19 on Loss of Smell (Anosmia) and Taste (Ageusia): A Comprehensive Review
The loss of smell (anosmia) and taste (ageusia) has emerged as a distinctive symptom associated with COVID-19 infection. This paper provides an extensive review of existing literature on the prevalence, mechanisms, clinical implications, and management of anosmia and ageusia in COVID-19 patients. The sudden onset of these sensory deficits has significant implications for diagnosis, patient management, and public health strategies. By synthesizing…
Moral Dilemmas and Human Nature: Analyzing the Ethical Landscape in D.H. Lawrence's Novels
In his written works D.H. Lawrence demonstrates the testing of societal understanding towards moral controversy and human nature through his literary creations. Lawrence created a dual conflict between social rules and personal freedom to show how his stories explore romantic relationships and class distinctions and sexual intimacy and social rankings. The research examines Lawrence's ethical viewpoint through a study of his four main literary wo…
Stigma as a barrier and sex work as a protective factor for HIV testing among trans women in Nepal
Stigma towards trans women in Nepal creates individual and system-level risks for HIV. A critical protective factor is access to HIV prevention. Research is needed to determine the impact of stigma on HIV testing among trans women in Nepal. We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected using respondent driven sampling in 2019 on HIV risk among trans women in Nepal. Data analysis was restricted to trans women who were HIV negative at testing…
Suicidal ideation, plan, and attempt among men who have sex with men in Nepal: Findings from a cross-sectional study
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at increased risk for suicide, with a much higher prevalence of suicidality than the general population. While there is a growing interest in the identification of risk factors for suicidal behaviors globally, the understanding of the prevalence and risk factors for suicidal behaviors among MSM in the context of low- and middle-income countries is almost non-existent. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate …
Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security
Militarized policing strategies aiming to identify and nullify risks to national security in Western nations have become central to the biopolitical regulation of racialized populations. While the disproportionate impact of pre-emptive counter-terrorism policing on ‘Muslim’ populations has been highlighted, the post-racial techno-politics of predictive policing as a mode of securitization remain overlooked. This article argues that the ‘war on te…
Sanjay Sharma, Patriarchy on the Move: Transnational experiences of Gurkha women
This doctoral research examines women’s lived migration experiences under mobile patriarchy. Mobile patriarchy underscores the transnational mobility of patriarchy between the origin societies and the destinations mediating and governing women’s experiences and agency. More specifically, the dissertation offers a gender analysis of the transnational mobilities of Gurkha women – women of Nepali origin with historic and contemporary links to the ex…
The Visual Anthropology of Migration Histories: Discovering the Mobility of Nepali Women through Visuals
This article uses visual anthropology to bring forth the migration histories of Nepali women, especially those related to Gurkha soldiers. Using personal and archival photographs and videos of migrants and their families, this article uncovers mobility patterns and migration histories of some Nepali women. The article uses visuals to build a narrative that deals not just with migration histories and destinations that go beyond South Asia, but the…
Famine, relief and rhetoric of welfare in colonial North India 1
This chapter examines one area where the colonial authorities sought to claim superior principles and practices compared to what they thought were extant in India, namely in the sphere of charity, famine relief and state welfarism. It deals with a discussion of some dominant indigenous forms of charity and their critiques. The chapter also examines their relationship with those new forms of welfare that were privileged under colonial rule with a …
Multihazard Weather Risk Perception and Preparedness in Eight Countries
Weather risk perception research lacks multihazard and transcultural datasets. This hypothesis-generating study used a cognitive behavioral approach and Brunswik’s lens model for subjective risk parameters across eight countries. In Germany, Poland, Israel, the United States, Brazil, India, Malaysia, and Australia, 812 field interviews took place with a uniform set of 37 questions about weather interest, media access, elementary meteorological kn…
The racialized surveillant assemblage: Islam and the fear of terrorism
Increasingly intense, multifaceted, and integrated forms of surveillance are a central feature of Western national security attempts to counter the violence of “Islamic terrorism.” However, there has been a lack of research examining contemporary regimes of surveillance as profoundly racialized. This study examines how counterterrorism efforts are underpinned by ill-conceived accounts of radicalization that preemptively construct Muslim migrants …
Visualizing YouTube’s comment space: Online hostility as a networked phenomena
This study examines YouTube’s comment space. By focusing on responses to the provocative musical group, Das Racist, we offer an innovative analysis of online racialized expression as a networked phenomenon. A blend of social network analysis, qualitative coding, and thick data descriptive methods are used to interpret comments posted on the five most viewed Das Racist videos. Given the dearth of literature exploring YouTube’s comment space, this …
Poverty, Business Strategy, and Sustainable Development
The past 15 years have witnessed an exponential growth in business activities aimed at serving the needs and increasing the well-being of disenfranchised individuals in low-income communities. Thousands of new business initiatives, development institution programs, and innovative investment funds focused on poverty alleviation have emerged during this time. Similarly, since the late 1990s when Prahalad and Hart first coined the term Bottom of Pyr…
Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Both Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence and Risk Behaviors in Women Living with HIV
South Korea’s Geo-economic Engagement in the Middle East: Obstacles and Opportunities
Beyond “Saddle Bag” Sustainability for Business Education
Revisiting the historical evolution of the corporation helps explain how the challenge of sustainability has been addressed in business education. Business schools emerged toward the end of the 19th century after U.S. Supreme Court judgments absolved corporate directors from the duty of adhering to social missions embodied in their limited liability charters. This coincided with the rise of neoclassical economics that placed shareholdersabove oth…
Darkmatter: Racial Reconfigurations and Networked Knowledge Production
In the form of a discussion the founding editors of darkmatter journal reflect on the challenges of developing an online race project in the neoliberal context of knowledge production. The independent open access journal, operating at the borders of academia and cultural production, attempts to grasp the shifting contours of contemporary race and racism in a networked postcolonial world. Against the limitations of solely working within discipline…
Pathways of Influence for Sustainability in Business Schools: A Dean’s Eye View
While faculty members are champions and implementers of change in business schools, deans play a critical role in generating support and resources for fostering sustainable curriculums. The pathways of change can be outside-in by connecting the agendas and visions of external stakeholders to support internal change or inside-out by selling the faculty’s vision to external stakeholders to generate resources. This essay draws lessons from the outsi…
Black Twitter? Racial Hashtags, Networks and Contagion
Race itself has become a digital medium, a distinctive set of informatic codes, networked mediated narratives, maps, images, visualizations that index identity. (1) There is a growing body of research exploring issues of race and ethnicity in digital environments. Social networking relations, modes of online communication and digital identities have been revealed to be far from race-neutral. (2) Research has raised questions concerning how extant…
Safety evaluation of an Ayurvedic medicine, Arogyavardhini vati on brain, liver and kidney in rats
Curating Sociology
Building on the range of methods available to the roaming sociological imagination, curating sociology is concerned with instituting 'live' public encounters. Contending that there are practices in the history of sociology that can be considered instances of curating sociology, this article makes a case for harnessing these to inventive research processes today. The discussion in this article draws attention to recent developments in curating bef…
Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century
This book examines the lesser known aspects of the colonial state through the lens of the many famines and famine induced crimes which affected north India as it emerged from the ‘chaotic’ eighteenth century. It situates the 1837-8 famine in the political, ideological and economic processes of the colonial state which, paradoxically, continued to advocate laissez faire even as it’s humanitarian and pragmatic concerns (including fears of disorder)…
Visualizing YouTube’s comment space: Online hostility as a networked phenomena
This study examines YouTube’s comment space. By focusing on responses to the provocative musical group, Das Racist, we offer an innovative analysis of online racialized expression as a networked phenomenon. A blend of social network analysis, qualitative coding, and thick data descriptive methods are used to interpret comments posted on the five most viewed Das Racist videos. Given the dearth of literature exploring YouTube’s comment space, this …
The racialized surveillant assemblage: Islam and the fear of terrorism
Increasingly intense, multifaceted, and integrated forms of surveillance are a central feature of Western national security attempts to counter the violence of “Islamic terrorism.” However, there has been a lack of research examining contemporary regimes of surveillance as profoundly racialized. This study examines how counterterrorism efforts are underpinned by ill-conceived accounts of radicalization that preemptively construct Muslim migrants …
Poverty, Business Strategy, and Sustainable Development
The past 15 years have witnessed an exponential growth in business activities aimed at serving the needs and increasing the well-being of disenfranchised individuals in low-income communities. Thousands of new business initiatives, development institution programs, and innovative investment funds focused on poverty alleviation have emerged during this time. Similarly, since the late 1990s when Prahalad and Hart first coined the term Bottom of Pyr…
White Paranoia: Orientalism in the Age of Empire
(2003). White Paranoia: Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Fashion Theory: Vol. 7, No. 3-4, pp. 301-317
Music & Politics: An Introduction
This is an introduction to the section on Music and Politics including a description of the context of these essays, their individual contributions and their thematic interrelations
Unravelling Difference: Towards a Sensory Multiculture
This article interrogates the possibility of developing a “sensory multiculture,” in which difference could be encountered outside of domination or appropriation. It invokes alternative dialogic aesthetic practices for living with difference. The article centers on the film Unravelling (2008, dir. Kuldip Powar and produced as part of the Noise of the Past project). This film is shown to offer a fragile and speculative practice of “counter-memory”…
Backpackers—What is the Peak Experience
This section is denoted to research reports, notes, conference resumes and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 3,000 words, may be mailed to the Section Editor, Associate Professor David A. Fennell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail. [email protected]. In all cases, one copy of the report should be mailed to the Chief Editor, TRR.This paper reports findings from inte…
The 1837-38 famine in U.P: Some dimensions of popular action
Networks, narratives and neocoloniality of AI for Climate Action
This article results from a cross-disciplinary study which unfolds the neocolonial nature of the application of AI technologies for climate action by examining the actors' network and discourses around this global practice. The study demonstrates that tech businesses from the Global North are currently leading the AI for Climate Action project, with certain non-profits and civil society organisations helping these actors to advance their core pro…
Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security
Militarized policing strategies aiming to identify and nullify risks to national security in Western nations have become central to the biopolitical regulation of racialized populations. While the disproportionate impact of pre-emptive counter-terrorism policing on ‘Muslim’ populations has been highlighted, the post-racial techno-politics of predictive policing as a mode of securitization remain overlooked. This article argues that the ‘war on te…
The Visual Anthropology of Migration Histories: Discovering the Mobility of Nepali Women through Visuals
This article uses visual anthropology to bring forth the migration histories of Nepali women, especially those related to Gurkha soldiers. Using personal and archival photographs and videos of migrants and their families, this article uncovers mobility patterns and migration histories of some Nepali women. The article uses visuals to build a narrative that deals not just with migration histories and destinations that go beyond South Asia, but the…
India: The Political Triangle: Pakistan, India and Britain By K. Raman Pillai. Young India Publication, Delhi. 1970. 152p. Rs. 20
India: Soviet Relations with India and Pakistan By Devendra Kaushik. Vikas, Delhi. 1971. 119 p. Rs. 15
Subaltern Studies III & IV: A Review Article
The 1837-38 famine in U.P: Some dimensions of popular action
Outreach of Iodised Salt in Rural Households of Assam
The outreach of iodised sail in rural households of Geleky PHC. Assam was evaluated. Analysts of 310 salt samples obtained from 10 settlements, selected randomly on the basis of proportional representation of the population, indicate poor outreach of iodised salt Adequate outreach of the iodised salt was found to be only 23.8%. Results indicate the need for midcourse correction in order to prevent the problem of Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) i…
Natural Population Growth in Rajasthan A Study of Time Series (1975-1994)
Time series analysis of birth and death rates of rural and urban areas of Rajasthan State has been under-taken for the period 1975-94 Consistently high birth rate and sharp declinine death rate accounts for the high natural growth of population in the state. Author draws attention to fragile ecosystem of Rajasthan that require immediate succor by population control. For the some, status of women is required to be raised
Managerial Interpretations and Organizational Context as Predictors of Corporate Choice of Environmental Strategy.
Drawing on the strategic issue interpretation literature, this study examined links between managerial interpretations of environmental issues and corporate choice of environmental strategy among 9...
So Far So Good: La Haine and the Poetics of the Everyday
Representations of urban youth and its cultures of display have become an increasing focus of attention for contemporary cinema. The film La Haine (1995) received critical acclaim for its raw depiction of `ghetto life' for alienated `minority' youth in France. In this article, we use this text as a way of exploring the cultural politics of such filmic practices. La Haine's aesthetic strategies of an affective `hyper-realism' and postmodern authen…
Music & Politics: An Introduction
This is an introduction to the section on Music and Politics including a description of the context of these essays, their individual contributions and their thematic interrelations
Famine-Crime as Popular Action
This chapter explores famine-crimes during 1837-8 with a view to constituting official notions of famine related collective crimes as being expressions of popular action. The author argues that these were suggestive of deep-rooted tensions between society and the colonial state. Since distinctions between known and new ‘criminals’ and between rank and class, tended to blur in collective popular action, official perceptions of crime at this time w…
‘Irrigating the Lands, Irrigating the Minds’: Panacea for a Parched North India
The concluding chapter of the book begins by discussing the long term consequences of the 1837-8 famine. While official accounts argued that north Indian society quickly bounced back from the downturn following the famine, actual facts point to the setting in of a deeper malaise. The chapter also describes the response of the colonial state which began focus on deforestation as one of the causes of the drought, to encourage missionary recue proje…
Famine, Philanthropy and the Colonial State: North India in the Early Nineteenth Century
This book examines the lesser known aspects of the colonial state through the lens of the many famines and famine induced crimes which affected north India as it emerged from the ‘chaotic’ eighteenth century. It situates the 1837-8 famine in the political, ideological and economic processes of the colonial state which, paradoxically, continued to advocate laissez faire even as it’s humanitarian and pragmatic concerns (including fears of disorder)…
Cyto-protective and immunomodulating properties of Amla (Emblica officinalis) on lymphocytes: An in-vitro study
A Contingent Resource-Based View of Proactive Corporate Environmental Strategy
We integrate perspectives from the literature on contingency, dynamic capabilities, and the natural resource-based view of the firm to propose how dimensions of the general competitive environment of a business will influence the development of a dynamic, proactive corporate strategy for managing the business–natural environment interface. We also explain how certain characteristics of the general business environment—uncertainty, complexity, and…
White Paranoia: Orientalism in the Age of Empire
(2003). White Paranoia: Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Fashion Theory: Vol. 7, No. 3-4, pp. 301-317
Backpackers—What is the Peak Experience
This section is denoted to research reports, notes, conference resumes and other significant research events. Two copies of write-ups, not exceeding 3,000 words, may be mailed to the Section Editor, Associate Professor David A. Fennell, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1; e-mail. [email protected]. In all cases, one copy of the report should be mailed to the Chief Editor, TRR.This paper reports findings from inte…
Stakeholder influences on sustainability practices in the Canadian forest products industry
We examined how managers' perceptions of different types of stakeholder influences in the Canadian forestry industry affect the types of sustainability practices that their firms adopt. Both influences involving withholding of resources by social and ecological stakeholders and those involving directed usage of resources from economic stakeholders were found to drive such practices. We found that the industry and its stakeholders have moved beyon…
Corporate Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage
Through the lens of managerial interpretations: Stakeholder engagement, organizational knowledge and innovation
Multicultural Encounters
Negotiating Identity and Status: Legitimation and Patronage under the Gurjara-Pratīhāras of Kanauj
A relatively recent thrust in Indian historiography has been on explorations of the making and functioning of various ideological structures through which the state in early India derived legitimacy. The present article extends the theme to the state under the Gurjara-Pratīhāras of Kanauj, who ruled large parts of north India from the late eighth to the early eleventh century AD. It begins by highlighting how the Pratīhāras of Kanauj made a consc…
Democratisation versus engagement? Social and economic impact assessment and community participation in the coal mining industry of the Bowen Basin, Australia
A review of economic impact assessment (EcIA), social impact assessment (SIA), and community participation practice in the rapidly growing coal industry of Australia's Bowen Basin suggests significant shortcomings in scope and reporting with neither EcIA nor SIA giving adequate attention to the measurement and distribution of negative impacts. This review also demonstrates a tendency to separate community participation from the conduct of impact …
The Art of Listening - By Les Back
Teaching British South Asian Cinema – towards a ‘materialist’ reading practice
British‐Asian cinema offers many opportunities for analysing multicultural representation. A growing body of work has established the significance of this cinema as operating beyond purportedly insular ‘ethnic minority’ concerns. British‐Asian cinema has been valued as a pedagogic resource to explore the formations of trans‐national identity in Cultural, Media and Film Studies teaching. This cinema is remarkable for the contestations over its sta…
The impact of mining on women: Lessons from the coal mining Bowen Basin of Queensland, Australia
The select indicators of gender equity from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Census 2006 reveal that women of the mining towns of the Bowen Basin region of central Queensland are at a substantial social and economic disadvantage to men. Through a review of select social science literature on mining communities the paper examines work, family and community structures and processes that promote and sustain patriarchy in mining communities and wi…
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