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 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.
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 2016Keywords
- Politics Of The Environment
- Postcolonialism
- Pastoralism
- Borderlands
- South Asia
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Research Output 1994 2019
Conservation Crossroads: Unpacking the Metropolitan Conservationist’s Agenda in Rural Ladakh, India.
Sabharwal, A., 2019, (In preparation) In : Area.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Don't be a Gama in the Land of Lama: Critical Reflections on the Significance of ‘Livability’ through the Ethnography of a Road in Ladakh Himalaya
Sabharwal, A., 2019, (In preparation) In : Journal of South Asian Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Saving Nature Saving Nation: The Practice of Assembling Military Environmentalism on the Changthang Border in Ladakh Himalaya
Sabharwal, A., 2019, (Submitted) In : Society and Natural Resources.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Where Exactly is the State? Anthropology of the Everyday State on the Margins of Indian Himalaya
Sabharwal, A., 2019, (Submitted) In : Journal of Political Ecology.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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
Projects 2016 2016
- 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