Ashwani Kumar Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3996443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashwani Kumar Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashwani Kumar |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Arts London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1180-056X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What is This 'Black 'in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Black Critical Thought in UK Arts and Higher Education
The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, it identifies and maps out a new presence in race discourse in the UK arts and higher education, under the heading of 'US Black Critical Thought'. Secondly, it seeks to situate 'US Black Critical Thought' and its growing impact upon intellectual and aesthetic discourses on race in the UK through the lens of the longer-term project of 'Black British Cultural Studies'. The article traces the formation a…
The (Anti)Social Life of a Digital Journal in the Era of Global Info-Capitalism
By reflecting on running the open-access online "race" journal darkmatter, the author examines the crisis of academic journal publishing. This crisis is manifested by the transformations in the economics of journal production, especially with the rise of open-access publishing and the neoliberalization of the academy; the developments in digital communications; and the global consolidation of Western corporate publishing power in "info-capitalism…
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…
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
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…
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
What is This 'Black 'in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Black Critical Thought in UK Arts and Higher Education
The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, it identifies and maps out a new presence in race discourse in the UK arts and higher education, under the heading of 'US Black Critical Thought'. Secondly, it seeks to situate 'US Black Critical Thought' and its growing impact upon intellectual and aesthetic discourses on race in the UK through the lens of the longer-term project of 'Black British Cultural Studies'. The article traces the formation a…
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…
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
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…
The (Anti)Social Life of a Digital Journal in the Era of Global Info-Capitalism
By reflecting on running the open-access online "race" journal darkmatter, the author examines the crisis of academic journal publishing. This crisis is manifested by the transformations in the economics of journal production, especially with the rise of open-access publishing and the neoliberalization of the academy; the developments in digital communications; and the global consolidation of Western corporate publishing power in "info-capitalism…
What is This 'Black 'in Black Studies? From Black British Cultural Studies to Black Critical Thought in UK Arts and Higher Education
The aim of this article is two-fold. Firstly, it identifies and maps out a new presence in race discourse in the UK arts and higher education, under the heading of 'US Black Critical Thought'. Secondly, it seeks to situate 'US Black Critical Thought' and its growing impact upon intellectual and aesthetic discourses on race in the UK through the lens of the longer-term project of 'Black British Cultural Studies'. The article traces the formation a…
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