Dr Salim Lakha
Contact
E: salim@unimelb.edu.au
T: 03 8344 0820
Office: Rm 247, Old Arts
Academic profile
BSc (Hull) Grad Dip (London) PhD (Monash)
Salim has multidisciplinary qualifications including economics, urban studies, and anthropology.
Salim's area of specialisation is India and he has published extensively on industrialisation, labour relations, and the economic and cultural aspects of globalisation. His research interests include migration, transnational identities, and the international division of labour. He has recently completed a study that examines how transient Indian IT professionals negotiate cultural difference in a transnational organisation in Australia. Salim is also interested in the work of non-government organisations (NGOs) in developing countries and has served on the projects committee of a leading NGO in Australia.
His current research project examines the capacity constraints in the implementation of the Indian government's national poverty alleviation program called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. The aim of the project is to investigate how some of the capacity constraints are being overcome and whether the scheme is contributing to a deepening of democracy in the rural areas.
Teaching
- 121-015 Development and the Third World
- 121-508 Project Management and Design
- 121-545 Understanding Development.
Publications
- S. Lakha & P. Taneja (eds) [forthcoming 2009]. Special Issue on ‘Democracy and Civil Society in India’, South Asia. Journal of South Asian Studies.
- S. Lakha. [forthcoming 2008] ‘Difference in a Transnational Organization. Transient Indian IT Professionals in Australia’ in Michael Gillan and Bob Pokrant (eds) Trade, Labour and Transformation of Community in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan.
- S. Lakha & P. Taneja 2007 (eds) Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India Conference Proceedings, Melbourne: School of Social & Environmental Enquiry and the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology, The University of Melbourne, September 20-21.
- S. Lakha & P. Taneja 2007. ‘Balancing Democracy and Globalization in an Era of Coalition Politics: The Indian Experience’ in Salim Lakha & Pradeep Taneja (eds) Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India Conference Proceedings, Melbourne: School of Social & Environmental Enquiry and the School of Political Science, Criminology and Sociology, The University of Melbourne, September 20-21, pp. 81-91.
- S Lakha 2006. ‘Indian Cultural Identity in Australia’ in Brij Lal (ed) The Encyclopaedia of the Indian Diaspora, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur & Paris: Editions Didier Millet: 385-7.
- S. Lakha (2005) 'Negotiating the transnational workplace: Indian computer professionals in Australia' Journal of Intercultural Studies 26(4).
- S Lakha (2003) 'Cyber gurus and social mobility in India's "Silicon Valley"' in H Dahles and Otto van den Muijzenberg Capital and knowledge in Asia: changing power relations Routledge Curzon, 51-63.
- S Lakha (2002) 'From Swadeshi to globalisation: shifting economic agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party' South Asia (special issue) The BJP and governance in India 25(3): 83-103.
- S Lakha and Michael Stevenson (2001) 'Indian Identity in multicultural Melbourne. Some preliminary observations' Journal of Intercultural Studies 22(3) 245-262.
- S Lakha (1999) 'The state, globalisation and Indian middle class identity' in M Pinches (ed) Culture and privilege in capitalist Asia Routledge: 251-274.
- S Lakha (1999) 'The new international division of labour and the Indian computer software industry' in J Bryson et al. (eds) The Economic Geography Reader: producing and consuming global capitalism John Wiley and Sons: 148-155.
- S Lakha (1996) 'Resisting globalisation: can India influence the terms of globalisation?' Asian Studies Association of Australia Review April: 26-30.
- S Lakha (1996) 'The Bharatiya Janata Party and the globalisation of the Indian economy' in J McGuire et al. (eds) Politics of violence. From Ayodhya to Behrampada Sage: 273-288.