Dr Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Languages and Cultures
Book Chapters
Curran, Georgia, White-Radhakrishnan, Mahesh, Laoire, Lillis Ó., Ingram, Catherine, Ng, Nicholas and Napier, John (2025). Contemporary issues of continuity and change for vulnerable performance traditions. Supporting vulnerable performance traditions: keeping it going in contexts of continuity and change. (pp. 1-24) edited by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781032693965-1
White-Radhakrishnan, Mahesh (2025). Láánsas parmi napooy: squaring the circle on the "difficult" Portuguese Burgher lancers. Supporting vulnerable performance traditions: keeping it going in contexts of continuity and change. (pp. 63-84) edited by Georgia Curran and Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan. New York, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781032693965-5
White-Radhakrishnan, Mahesh (2023). Káfriinha, Kaffringha, and the Bailasphere—Sri Lanka and beyond. Sounding the Indian Ocean: musical circulations in the Afro-Asiatic seascape. (pp. 274-293) edited by Jim Sykes and Julia Byl. Oakland, CA, United States: University of California Press. doi: 10.1525/luminos.160.n
Journal Articles
Radhakrishnan, Mahesh (2021). ‘Shake it and dance': Portuguese Burgher identity and the performance of Káfriinha. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 22 (2-3), 140-161. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2021.1922496
Curran, Georgia and Radhakrishnan, Mahesh (2021). The value of ethnographic research on music: an introduction. Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 22 (2-3), 101-118. doi: 10.1080/14442213.2021.1913511
Cardoso, Hugo C., Radhakrishnan, Mahesh, Costa, Patrícia and Pereira, Rui (2020). Documenting modern Sri Lanka Portuguese. Language Documentation and Conservation, 19.
Radhakrishnan, Mahesh (2019). Musicolinguistic approaches to the study of song. Performance Research, 24 (1), 53-57. doi: 10.1080/13528165.2019.1601943
Radhakrishnan, Mahesh (2016). South Indian carnatic singing and Irish Sean-nós - an ethnographic, musical and linguistic comparison. Folk Life, 54 (1), 32-48. doi: 10.1080/04308778.2016.1159791
Research Report
Yates, Lynda, Terraschke, Agnes, Zielinski, Beth, Pryor, Elizabeth, Wang, Jihong, Major, George, Radhakrishnan, Mahesh, Middleton, Heather, Chisari, Maria and Williams Tetteh, Vera (2014). Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) longitudinal study 2011-2014: final report. Sydney, NSW, Australia Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University.