{"product_id":"intimate-geopolitics-love-territory-and-the-future-on-indias-northern-threshold-the-politics-of-marriage-and-gender-global-issues-in-local-contexts-9780813598567","title":"Intimate Geopolitics Love Territory and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBegins 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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   -- Rupal Oza * author of The Making of Neoliberal India *\u003cbr\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.\" -- Amrita Pande * author of Wombs in Labor *\u003cbr\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.\" * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeries Foreword by Péter 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","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405802545495,"sku":"9780813598567","price":26.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813598567.jpg?v=1730493672","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/intimate-geopolitics-love-territory-and-the-future-on-indias-northern-threshold-the-politics-of-marriage-and-gender-global-issues-in-local-contexts-9780813598567","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}