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

摘要: Bodies not only are territory but also make territory. Recent scholarship interrogates the utility of hierarchical scale, attends to everyday practice and geopolitical strategy, thinks through geographies religion in terms intersectionality embodiedness. I build on these developments by reading them lens territoriality explore how babies reproductive bodies caught up projects religious narratives Leh district India's contested Jammu Kashmir State (J&K). J&K's Ladakh region has experienced politicization identity over course twentieth century, culminating Buddhist majority's social boycott Ladakhi Muslims subsequent territorialization marriage reproduction as sites possibility. This research explores territorial logic manifest a pronatal campaign ban intermarriage, well ways that people respond this logic. The res...