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Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold
Ort / Verlag
Rutgers University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Winner of the 2021 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award
from the American Association of Geographers 2021
Foreword Indies Finalist - Politics and Social Sciences
Intimate Geopolitics 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. Intimate
Geopolitics argues for the incorporation of the role of
time-temporality-into our understanding of territory.