Description: Intimate Geopolitics : Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold, Hardcover by Smith, Sara, ISBN 0813598575, ISBN-13 9780813598574, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Intimate Geopolitics is a story about territory. The stories of love and marriage that play out in th are caught up in and revealing of global processes, which define "insiders" and "outsiders" in relation to borders and national identity, throughthe regulation of marriage, intimacy, love, and children. In Ladakh, a culturally Tibetan region in India's Jammu and Kashmir state, 11,000 feet above sea level, and only a few hundred miles from the disputed Pakistan border, inter-religious marriages are informally banned today--bodies are understood as part of a struggle to manage future voting blocs, and thus, territory itself. Using the threat of Muslim population growth, Ladakhi Buddhist activists are encouraging Buddhist women to give up family planning and have as many children as possible, to guarantee a demographic future for Buddhists. Religious identity has been bound to a struggle to control the region through management of its demography one body at a time. When religion, population, and voting blocs are implicitly tied to territorial sovereignty, marriage across religious boundaries becomes a geopolitical problem. Smith argues that time--temporality--should be worked into our understanding of both marriage and territory to show that territory is alive and embodied, and that by attending to the life of territory and its temporal dimension, we gain a much richer and complex understanding of what it means to claim space, both for the present and the future. Demography is anything but abstract--it is the decisions and experiences that are most intimate: birth, marriage, movement across borders, and death. These sites are where geopolitical strategy is animated and made material"--
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Book Title: Intimate Geopolitics : Love, Territory, and the Future on India's
Number of Pages: 182 Pages
Publication Name: Intimate Geopolitics : Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Geopolitics, Public Policy / Social Policy, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, World / Asian
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Author: Sara Smith
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts Ser.
Format: Hardcover
