Intimate Geopolitics: Religion, Marriage, and Reproductive Bodies in Leh, Ladakh

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1511-1528

  Smith, Sara ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

feminist political geography; Jammu and Kashmir; religion and conflict; South Asia; territory

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GEOPOLITICS; MARRIAGE; RELIGION; REPRODUCTION;

INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR; LADAKH;

EID: 84867214133     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.660391     Document Type: Article

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