Intimate Geopolitics - Love, Territory, and the Future on India''s Northern Threshold

Intimate Geopolitics is the story of love and territory in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This book takes on global processes of “demographic fever dreams,” which animate political movements, by understanding them in a deeply rooted local context and through the lives of ordinary people making decisions about love, babies, and the future.
 

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Smith
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2020
• EAN: 9780813598574
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-9857-4
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Politics of Marriage and Gende; Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education