India's Spatial Imaginations of South Asia Power, Commerce, and Community |
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Author:
| Chatterjee, Shibashis Ganguly, Sumit Sridharan, E. |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-948988-6 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2019 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press India
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $77.27AUD $42.95 |
Book Description:
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Space matters in foreign policy. India's understanding of its neighbourhood is informed by a politics of realism as South Asia remains a 'space' defined in terms of power and sovereign territoriality in contrast to alternative imaginations based on the market or community. India's relations with neighbours have moved between fixed points of references, constituted by its imagination of South Asia as a space of power and territorial control. India's spatialimaginations of its...
More DescriptionSpace matters in foreign policy. India's understanding of its neighbourhood is informed by a politics of realism as South Asia remains a 'space' defined in terms of power and sovereign territoriality in contrast to alternative imaginations based on the market or community. India's relations with neighbours have moved between fixed points of references, constituted by its imagination of South Asia as a space of power and territorial control. India's spatialimaginations of its neighbourhood build on a differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism, colonizing our shared ontology of social space.