Research Output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Dr Alka Sabharwal lectures at the School of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on state, bureaucracy and environmental policymaking in India, and she has been published both in Australia and abroad. Dr Sabharwal has worked for ten years in non-governmental organisations in the Indo-Pacific region, coordinating development-policy research programs at the likes of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). She is also a member of the South Asian Association of Australia and has been invited to present her research around the world.
Teaching overview
Postgraduate Unit Co-ordinator
Master of Public Policy (Public Sector Leadership in Practice)
Master of International Development (Politics of Development Specialisation);
SOCS5051 NGOs,Governance and Development;
POLS5672 Global Development Debates.
Also,
POLS 5651Global Political Economy;
SOC5003Research Design.
ORGM6000 International Business Ethics (Curtin Business School)
Undergraduate Unit Co-ordinator
POLS2201 Foundations of Public Policy;
POLS3335 Social Movements & the Politics of Change;
ANTH4103 Knowing Social Realities: Empirical Explorations;
MGMT3006 Business Ethics (Curtin Business School);
SUS100 Critical Sustainable Development (Murdoch University).
Tutoring/Guest Lecturing
ASIA3005 Democratizing in Asia;
SOCS5200 Digital Advocacy;
ANTH1001 & 1002 Anthropology & Sociology;
GEOG5002 Development Practice; ANTH3701 Environment, Landscape and Place;
AST312 Anthropology, Society & Culture ( Murdoch University);
MGMT2004 Business and Sustainable Development (Curtin Business School)
Research
Anthropology of State; Bureaucracy; Politics of Environmentalism; India; Ethnography; Cultural Politics; Himalaya; Asian Borderlands; Frontierization.
Languages
English
Punjabi
Hindi
Urdu
External positions
Associate Lecturer/Course Designer/Tutor, Curtin University of Technology
7 Jul 2016 → 15 Jul 2018Unit Manager/Lecturer, Murdoch University
1 Jun 2015 → 1 Feb 2016Research expertise keywords
- Politics Of The Environment
- Postcolonialism
- Pastoralism
- Borderlands
- South Asia
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Research Output
Closing the Frontier? From Contested Boundaries to the Greening of the Frontier Politics in Changthang
Sabharwal, A., Dec 2020, (Accepted/In press) Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies. Bhan, M., Duschinski, H. & Misri, D. (eds.). RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Mutating Kashmir and Ladakh into "Bantustans"
Sabharwal, A., 14 Aug 2019, Indian Ocean Centre for Peace Studies and The Australian Institute of International Affairs.Research output: Other contribution
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
Frontierization and defrontierization: Reconceptualising frontier frames in Indonesia and India
Acciaioli, G. & Sabharwal, A., 2017, Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800. Tejada, J. M. & Tatar, B. (eds.). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, p. 31-45 (Border Regions Series).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Contested Affluence: Cultural Politics of Pashmina Wealth and Wildlife Conservation in Ladakh
Sabharwal, A., 2016, The Economics of Ecology, Exchange, and Adaptation: Anthropological Explorations. Wood, D. (ed.). UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Vol. 36. p. 77-113Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
Projects
- 1 Finished
UWA led WUN - Non-market valuation of loss and damage under climate change
Tschakert, P., Pannell, D., Kragt, M., Pandit, R., Sabharwal, A., Lawrence, C., Prout Quicke, S., Woodward, A., Sallu, S., Mumuni, A. & New, M.
Worldwide Universities Network
1/01/16 → 31/12/16
Project: Research