Shyam Krishnan Sriram
Biographic Data
| ID | 643899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shyam Krishnan Sriram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shyam Krishnan |
| FAMILY NAME | Sriram |
| SIGNATURE | SRIRAM S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2164-3550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New theory of republican respectability politics: The case of Nikki Haley
The Consequences of Conversion: How Do White Muslims Experience Racialization and Privilege
White converts to Islam comprise a significant percentage of American Muslims, but their racialization within the Muslim community remains underexplored. Through analysis of 19 semi-structured interviews, we identify a form of "racial triangulation", and conclude that white Muslim converts are valorized by heritage Muslims as being superior to black Muslims, with valorization expressed through forms of white privilege within the Muslim community.…
Voiceless and Stateless Rohingya Refugees: Competing Expectations Among NGOs in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh”
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a critical role in the response to human displacement yet face competing pressures. One ongoing site of displacement is among the 1.1 million Rohingya persons living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. NGOs are party to the ongoing humanitarian response yet operate under competing demands by multiple stakeholders. To what extent do NGOs meet the various expectations among different groups of Rohingya refugee…
Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates
South Asians have seen an increase in representation at all levels of US government, from Congress to the Vice Presidency, yet a paucity of work has been done examining South Asian candidates in America. The distinct nature of South Asian candidacies allows us to examine the intersection between race and religious identity and how emphasizing different social and political identities impact minority candidate evaluations. We theorize the potentia…
What If We Were Savage?” Mad Max Transmedia as Speculative Anthropology
Through a neoteric methodology (speculative ethnography), we analyze the transmedia worldbuilding of the Mad Max franchise as a form of “Ozploitation.” This post-apocalyptic rural sci-fi series exploits culturally specific fears generated from Australia’s colonial past. Mad Max is a popular imagining of the Australian eschaton and its aftermath, a collective national nightmare where near-future Australia—“Maxtralia”—plummets into the savagery inv…
Of acculturative stress and integration distress: The resettlement challenges of Bhutanese refugees in Metro Atlanta
Bhutanese refugees represent one of the most recent waves of immigration to the United States. Resettled since 2008, the community finds itself marred by what Berry et al. (1987) termed 'acculturative stress', which has resulted in a high level of suicide and fractured communities. This paper contributes to the literature on resettlement through an analysis of the experiences of 32 Bhutanese refugees in Metro Atlanta. The data for this project co…
Measuring Environmental Values and Identity
Scholars who study environmental problems across the social sciences often require a measure of the lens through which people filter information. Many scales have been created to serve in this analytical role, including the New Ecological Paradigm, the Connectedness to Nature Scale, environmentalist identity and environmental movement identity, and the cultural cognition scales. To our knowledge, no study compares them in a single sample. We used…
A Foucauldian Theory of American Islamophobia
With the emergence of ISIS andAmerican public furor over allowing Syrian refugees safe haven, Muslim Americans find themselves once again in the cross-hairs of a nation obsessed with searching for answers and someone to blame. I argue that the premise behind American anti-Muslim sentiment is rooted in two of Michel Foucault's concepts -"biopower" and "pastoral power." This article is divided in two halves. In the first, I argue that American nati…
The politics of deracialisation: South Asian American candidates, nicknames, and campaign strategies
This paper focuses on the deracialisation strategies of South Asian American candidates for elected office. We argue that there is a distinct pattern among these candidates in terms of the type of representation they embody, as well as their personal choices including using non-ethnic nicknames in their campaign materials. These nicknames assist voters, especially in low-information elections, by signalling the ethnicity of candidates – or the la…
A comparative analysis of collective action frames in Nosamo and the Tea Party
Classical collective action theories assume that successful political movements must have an organization and the ability to mobilize supporters in support of a common goal. Yet the unprecedented achievements of networked political movements have led scholars to reconsider these assumptions. South Korea’s Nosamo and the Tea Party Movement are unique among networked political movements in that they were aimed at electing specific political candida…
Asian Americans Distinct Politically
I read Anil G. Jacob's piece in the January 2006 issue of PS (“Asian American Political Participation: Research Challenges for an Emerging Minority,” 103–106) with a mixture of admiration and consternation. He has my admiration for getting published as a graduate student, and that too in PS—a feat that I'm sure will stand him good measure when he is on the job market. However, he has my consternation because he makes slight of a field that has, e…
Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates
South Asians have seen an increase in representation at all levels of US government, from Congress to the Vice Presidency, yet a paucity of work has been done examining South Asian candidates in America. The distinct nature of South Asian candidacies allows us to examine the intersection between race and religious identity and how emphasizing different social and political identities impact minority candidate evaluations. We theorize the potentia…
Measuring Environmental Values and Identity
Scholars who study environmental problems across the social sciences often require a measure of the lens through which people filter information. Many scales have been created to serve in this analytical role, including the New Ecological Paradigm, the Connectedness to Nature Scale, environmentalist identity and environmental movement identity, and the cultural cognition scales. To our knowledge, no study compares them in a single sample. We used…
A comparative analysis of collective action frames in Nosamo and the Tea Party
Classical collective action theories assume that successful political movements must have an organization and the ability to mobilize supporters in support of a common goal. Yet the unprecedented achievements of networked political movements have led scholars to reconsider these assumptions. South Korea’s Nosamo and the Tea Party Movement are unique among networked political movements in that they were aimed at electing specific political candida…
Asian Americans Distinct Politically
I read Anil G. Jacob's piece in the January 2006 issue of PS (“Asian American Political Participation: Research Challenges for an Emerging Minority,” 103–106) with a mixture of admiration and consternation. He has my admiration for getting published as a graduate student, and that too in PS—a feat that I'm sure will stand him good measure when he is on the job market. However, he has my consternation because he makes slight of a field that has, e…
A Foucauldian Theory of American Islamophobia
With the emergence of ISIS andAmerican public furor over allowing Syrian refugees safe haven, Muslim Americans find themselves once again in the cross-hairs of a nation obsessed with searching for answers and someone to blame. I argue that the premise behind American anti-Muslim sentiment is rooted in two of Michel Foucault's concepts -"biopower" and "pastoral power." This article is divided in two halves. In the first, I argue that American nati…
The politics of deracialisation: South Asian American candidates, nicknames, and campaign strategies
This paper focuses on the deracialisation strategies of South Asian American candidates for elected office. We argue that there is a distinct pattern among these candidates in terms of the type of representation they embody, as well as their personal choices including using non-ethnic nicknames in their campaign materials. These nicknames assist voters, especially in low-information elections, by signalling the ethnicity of candidates – or the la…
A comparative analysis of collective action frames in Nosamo and the Tea Party
Classical collective action theories assume that successful political movements must have an organization and the ability to mobilize supporters in support of a common goal. Yet the unprecedented achievements of networked political movements have led scholars to reconsider these assumptions. South Korea’s Nosamo and the Tea Party Movement are unique among networked political movements in that they were aimed at electing specific political candida…
Of acculturative stress and integration distress: The resettlement challenges of Bhutanese refugees in Metro Atlanta
Bhutanese refugees represent one of the most recent waves of immigration to the United States. Resettled since 2008, the community finds itself marred by what Berry et al. (1987) termed 'acculturative stress', which has resulted in a high level of suicide and fractured communities. This paper contributes to the literature on resettlement through an analysis of the experiences of 32 Bhutanese refugees in Metro Atlanta. The data for this project co…
Measuring Environmental Values and Identity
Scholars who study environmental problems across the social sciences often require a measure of the lens through which people filter information. Many scales have been created to serve in this analytical role, including the New Ecological Paradigm, the Connectedness to Nature Scale, environmentalist identity and environmental movement identity, and the cultural cognition scales. To our knowledge, no study compares them in a single sample. We used…
What If We Were Savage?” Mad Max Transmedia as Speculative Anthropology
Through a neoteric methodology (speculative ethnography), we analyze the transmedia worldbuilding of the Mad Max franchise as a form of “Ozploitation.” This post-apocalyptic rural sci-fi series exploits culturally specific fears generated from Australia’s colonial past. Mad Max is a popular imagining of the Australian eschaton and its aftermath, a collective national nightmare where near-future Australia—“Maxtralia”—plummets into the savagery inv…
Voiceless and Stateless Rohingya Refugees: Competing Expectations Among NGOs in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh”
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) play a critical role in the response to human displacement yet face competing pressures. One ongoing site of displacement is among the 1.1 million Rohingya persons living in refugee camps in Bangladesh. NGOs are party to the ongoing humanitarian response yet operate under competing demands by multiple stakeholders. To what extent do NGOs meet the various expectations among different groups of Rohingya refugee…
Imperative Patriotism and Minority Candidacies: Examining the Role of Military Status in Racial Evaluations of South Asian Candidates
South Asians have seen an increase in representation at all levels of US government, from Congress to the Vice Presidency, yet a paucity of work has been done examining South Asian candidates in America. The distinct nature of South Asian candidacies allows us to examine the intersection between race and religious identity and how emphasizing different social and political identities impact minority candidate evaluations. We theorize the potentia…
New theory of republican respectability politics: The case of Nikki Haley
The Consequences of Conversion: How Do White Muslims Experience Racialization and Privilege
White converts to Islam comprise a significant percentage of American Muslims, but their racialization within the Muslim community remains underexplored. Through analysis of 19 semi-structured interviews, we identify a form of "racial triangulation", and conclude that white Muslim converts are valorized by heritage Muslims as being superior to black Muslims, with valorization expressed through forms of white privilege within the Muslim community.…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)