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Alka Sabharwal

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  • The University of Western Australia (M257), 35 Stirling Highway,

    6009 Perth

    Australia

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19942019
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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

Master of International Development

[Politics of Development Specialisation: SOCS5051 NGOs,Governance & Development]

POLS 5651Global Political Economy, SOC5003Research Design

POLS3335 Social Movements & the Politics of Change ANTH4103 Knowing Social Realities: Empirical Explorations. ANTH1001 & 1002 Anthropology & Sociology

ORGM6000International Business Ethics (Curtin Business School)

MGMT2004 Business and Sustainable Development (Curtin Business School)

SUS100Critical Sustainable Development (Murdoch University)

AST312 Anthropology, Society & Culture ( Murdoch University)

 

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 2018

Unit Manager/Lecturer, Murdoch University

1 Jun 2015 → 1 Feb 2016

Keywords

  • Politics Of The Environment
  • Postcolonialism
  • Pastorialism
  • Borderlands
  • South Asia

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Projects 2016 2016

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

Research Output 1994 2019

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

Conservation Crossroads: Unpacking the Metropolitan Conservationist’s Agenda in Rural Ladakh, India.

Sabharwal, A., 2018, (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., 2018, (In preparation) In : Journal of South Asian Studies.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Where Exactly is the State? Anthropology of the Everyday State on the Margins of Indian Himalaya

Sabharwal, A., 2018, (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