{"product_id":"intimate-geopolitics-love-territory-and-the-future-on-indias-northern-threshold-paperback-softback-9780813598567","title":"Intimate Geopolitics; Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813598567","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIntimate Geopolitics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLove, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSara Smith (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813598567\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 March 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e182 pages, 2 B-W maps, 2 figures, 2 Tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Intimate Geopolitics \u003c\/i\u003eis a richly crafted book, which forcefully demonstrates that politics of the intimate are intricately tied to global political maneuverings. Its empirical detail, animated through stories of the people Smith interviewed in Ladakh, reveal that the deeply personal and painful struggles refuse to be contained to the intimate. They bristle with tension and vulnerability about territory, sovereignty, and belonging.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e - Rupal Oza (author of The Making of Neoliberal India) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This deeply moving ethnography takes us through a complex interplay of intimacy, reproduction, bodies and nationhood in the North Indian region of Leh and Ladakh. Smith's work is courageous and critical, and once again confirms that reproduction can never be apolitical, and that longing and belonging cannot be delinked.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Amrita Pande (author of Wombs in Labor) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIntimate Geopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and important intervention in Himalayan studies....[An] engaging and ethnographically rich narrative, which treats a geopolitically loaded question with a great deal of sensitivity and understanding.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2021 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award from the American Association of Geographers​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 Foreword Indies Finalist - Politics and Social Sciences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntimate Geopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a love story set in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State, but this is also a story about territory, and the ways that love, marriage, and young people are caught up in contemporary global processes. In Ladakh, children grow up to adopt a religious identity in part to be counted in the census, and to vote in elections. Religion, population, and voting blocs are implicitly tied to territorial sovereignty and marriage across religious boundaries becomes a geopolitical problem in an area that seeks to define insiders and outsiders in relation to borders and national identity. This book populates territory, a conventionally abstract rendering of space, with the stories of those who live through territorial struggle at marriage and birth ceremonies, in the kitchen and in the bazaar, in heartbreak and in joy. \u003ci\u003eIntimate Geopolitics\u003c\/i\u003e argues for the incorporation of the role of time–temporality–into our understanding of territory.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSeries Foreword by PÉ\u003cbr\u003eter Berta\u003cbr\u003e List of Figures\u003cbr\u003e 1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2 Birth and the territorial body\u003cbr\u003e 3 The queen and the fistfight: territory comes to life\u003cbr\u003e 4 Intimacy on the threshold\u003cbr\u003e 5 Raising children on the threshold of the future\u003cbr\u003e 6 Generation vertigo and the future of territory\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523256054040,"sku":"9780813598567","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/intimate-geopolitics-love-territory-and-the-future-on-indias-northern-threshold-paperback-softback-9780813598567","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}