Political cultural, and feminist geography; intimacy, territory, and bodies; health politics; geopolitical subject formation Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir; South Asia. Her research seeks to understand how political and geopolitical conflict is constituted or disrupted through intimate acts of love, friendship and birth.
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas experience in South Asia. NGO work and research in India since 1999.
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Social Science Research Council Book Fellowship 2011, Center for Global Initiatives Conference Travel Award 2011, Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Fellowship 2007, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship 2007, Society of Woman Geographers Evelyn L. Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• GEOG 120 World Regional Geography and Geography • GEOG 267 South Asia • GEOG 399 Special Topics-Political and Cultural Geographies of South Asia • GEOG 814 Seminar in Social Geography, “Bodies, Territory, Violence"
Recent Publications:
• 2018 Forthcoming. Pat Parker, Dorothy Holland, Jean Dennison, Sara Smith, and Melvin Jackson. Decolonizing the Academy: Lessons from the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417729846
• 2017 2017 Paul Robbins and Sara Smith. “Baby bust: Towards Political Demography.” Progress in Human Geography. 41:199-219.
• 2017 OPEN ACCESS: 2017 Banu Gokariksel and Sara Smith (equal authorship). In press. “Making America Great Again?”: The fascist body politics of Donald Trump. Political Geography.
• 2017 OPEN ACCESS: 2017 Sara Smith and Pavithra Vasudevan.* Race, biopolitics, and the future: Introduction to the special section. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 35:210-221.
• 2017 2017 Banu Gökarıksel and Sara Smith (equal authorship). Intersectional feminism beyond U.S. flag hijabs and pussy hats in Trump’s America. Gender, Place and Culture 24:628-644.
• 2017 2017 Parker, Patricia, Sara Smith, and Jean Dennison. “Decolonising the Classroom.” Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies. 20:233-247.
• 2017 2017 Sara Smith. Politics, pleasure, and difference in the intimate city: Himalayan students remake the future. cultural geographies. 24: 573-588.
• 2016 Sara Smith. 2016. Intimacy and angst in the field. Gender, Place & Culture. 23: 134-146.
• 2016 Sara Smith, Nathan Swanson, and Banu Gokariksel. 2016. “Territory, bodies, and borders” Special issue and introduction at Area.
• 2015 Sara Smith and Mabel Gergan. 2015. The diaspora within: Himalayan youth, education-driven migration, and future aspirations in India. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 33:119-135.
• 2014 Sara Smith. 2014. Intimate territories and the experimental subject in the Leh District of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. Ethnos 79: 41-62. Part of a special issue, Bodies and experiments in Asia, edited by Fouzieyha Towghi and Kalindi Vora.
• 2013 Intimate territories and the experimental subject in the Leh District of India's Jammu and Kashmir State. Ethnos.
• 2012 Intimate geopolitics: Religion, marriage, and reproductive bodies in Leh, Ladakh. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.102(6): 1511-1528.
• 2011 “She says herself, ‘I have no future’”: Love, fate, and territory in Leh, Jammu and Kashmir State, India. Gender, Place, and Culture. (Forthcoming).
• 2009 The domestication of geopolitics: Buddhist-Muslim conflict and the policing of marriage and the body in Ladakh, India. Geopolitics 14(2): 1-22.
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