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Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Alka Sabharwal lectures at the School of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development in South Asia. Alka is a recipient of UWA's Research Collaboration Award (2016-17) and has been conferred Australian Postgraduate Award for her PhD (2010-2014). She is a scholarly member of the Not-For-Profit (NFP) research cluster at UWA and has been teaching at the School of Social Sciences, UWA since 2010. Her research has been published in Third Sector Review and in the scholarly edited volumes of Routledge and Emerald, UK. In the past, she has worked and researched with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Centre for Science and Environment, Kalpavriskh, Actionaid and The Wilderness Society, Perth.
Research
South Asia; India; Development; NGOs; Himalayan borderland; Political Anthropology.
Funding overview
2016 Research Collaboration Award - UWA led WUN - Non-market valuation of loss and damage under climate change.
Roles and responsibilities
Editorial Board Member: SN Social Sciences (a multi-and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic research journal).
Member Affiliate: Not-for-profits UWA
Teaching overview
POLS5672 Global Development Debates;SOCS5051 NGOs, Governance and Development; POLS5651 Global Political Economy; SOCS5003 Research Design; POLS2201 Foundations of Public Policy; POLS5504 Public Sector Leadership in Practice; POLS3335 Social Movements and the Politics of Change; ANTH4103 Knowing Social Realities: Empirical Explorations.
Languages
English & Hindi
External positions
Associate Lecturer/Course Designer/Tutor, Curtin University
7 Jul 2016 → 15 Jul 2018
Unit Manager/Lecturer, Murdoch University
1 Jun 2015 → 1 Feb 2016
Research expertise keywords
- Cultural Politics of Environment & Development
- India
- Development studies
- Himalayan Borderlands
- South Asia
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Research output
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Closing the Frontier? Extraction, Contested Boundaries and the Greening of Frontier Politics in Ladakh.
Sabharwal, A., 2023, Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies. Bhan, M., Duschinski, H. & Misri, D. (eds.). 1 ed. United States: Routledge, p. 49-59 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
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Contested Spaces: A Coinciding Rise of State Regulations and Technomoral Politics of the Rights-Based NGOs in India
Sabharwal, A., 2020, In: Third Sector Review. 26, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Informality or involuntary Exclusion: Re-considering the dualism of informal and formal economy in India
Sabharwal, A. & Suman, Y., 2020.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
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Mutating Kashmir and Ladakh into "Bantustans"
Sabharwal, A., 14 Aug 2019, Australian Outlook.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article in specialist publication
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Stategraphy: Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Sabharwal, A., 3 Apr 2019, In: Anthropological Forum. 29, 2, p. 198-200 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Projects
- 1 Finished
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UWA led WUN - Non-market valuation of loss and damage under climate change
Tschakert, P., Pannell, D., Woodward, A., Sallu, S., Mumuni, A., New, M., Kragt, M., Pandit, R., Sabharwal, A., Lawrence, C. & Prout Quicke, S.
Worldwide Universities Network
1/01/16 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Press / Media
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Can Ladakh, now develop in its own right as a union territory?
25/09/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media