2020. Intimate Geopolitics: Love, Marriage, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
2020 Sara Smith. Political Geography: A Critical Introduction. London: Wiley.
Edited Volumes
2021. Banu Gökarıksel, Mike Hawkins,* Christopher Neubert,* and Sara Smith (equal editorship). Feminist Geography Unbound: Discomfort, Bodies, and Prefigured Futures. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press.
Forthcoming. Mabel Gergan and Sara Smith. Theorizing Racialization Through India’s “Mongolian Fringe.” Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Forthcoming. with FLOCK feminist collective. Student-led Activism for Racial Justice: Ruptures I, Pedagogy and Transformation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ACME.
Forthcoming. Mabel Gergan* and Sara Smith. Theorizing the City: Racialized Minority Youth in India’s Global Cities” ACME.
2020 Pallavi Gupta*, Banu Gökarıksel, and Sara Smith. The Politics of Saving Muslim Women in India: Gendered Geolegality, Security, and Territorialization. Political Geography 83
2020 Pavithra Vasudevan* and Sara Smith. The Domestic Geopolitics of Racial Capitalism. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. 38(7–8) 1160–1179.
2020 Mabel Gergan* and Sara Smith (equal authorship). “The path you will choose won’t be a fairytale”: Urban prefiguration and mountain nostalgia in India’s Northwest Himalayas. Space and Polity. 24(1): 77-92. In Special Issue, “Youth Politics in Urban Asia,” edited by Yi’En Cheng and Sonia Lam-Knott.
2020 Mabel Gergan,* Sara Smith, and Pavithra Vasudevan* (equal authorship). Earth beyond repair. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 38(1):91-110. In special issue, “Race and the Anthropocene,” edited by Andrew Baldwin and Bruce Erickson.
2019 Dimpfl, Mike* and Sara Smith. Cosmopolitan Sidestep: University Life, Intimate Geopolitics, and the Hidden Costs of “Global” Citizenship. Area. 51(4): 635-643.
2019 Banu Gökarıksel, Christopher Neubert,* and Sara Smith (equal authorship). Demographic Fever Dreams: Fragile Virility and its Population Politics in the Rise of the Global Right. Signs. 44(3): 561-587.
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 Sara Smith. Politics, pleasure, and difference in the intimate city: Himalayan students remake the future. cultural geographies. 24: 573-588.
2017 Parker, Patricia, Sara Smith, and Jean Dennison. “Decolonising the Classroom.” Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies. 20:233-247.
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.
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 Paul Robbins and Sara Smith. “Baby bust: Towards Political Demography.” Progress in Human Geography. 41:199-219.
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.
Sara Smith, Nathan Swanson, and Banu Gokariksel. 2016. “Territory, bodies, and borders” Special issue and introduction at Area.
Sara Smith. 2016. Intimacy and angst in the field. Gender, Place & Culture. 23: 134-146.
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.
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.
Sara Smith. 2013. “In the heart, there’s nothing”: Unruly youth, generational vertigo, and territory. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 38: 572-585.
Sara Smith. 2012 Intimate geopolitics: Religion, marriage, and reproductive bodies in Leh, Ladakh. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.102(6): 1511-1528.
Sara Smith. 2011 “She says herself, ‘I have no future’”: Love, fate, and territory in Leh District, India. Gender, Place and Culture 18(4): 455-476.
Sara Smith. 2009 The domestication of geopolitics: Buddhist-Muslim conflict and the policing of marriage and the body in Ladakh, India. Geopolitics 14(2): 1-22.
2008 Notes from the field: the geopolitics of intimacy and babies in Leh. Ladakh Studies 23(December): 20-25.
Book Chapters in Edited Volumes
Sara Smith. “Religious identity and gender on the edges of the nation: the Leh district of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state.” In Stanley D. Brunn (Ed). The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics. New York: Springer. Chapter 13.5.
Sara Smith and Mabel Gergan. In press. “Life, love, and activism on the forgotten margins of the nation-state. In Matt Benwell and Peter Hopkins (Eds). Children, young people and critical geopolitics. London: Ashgate.
Book Reviews
2012 Review of Intimate others: marriage and sexualities in India. S. Sen, R. Biswas, and N. Dhawan. Gender, Place and Culture. 19(6): 810-812. DOI:10.1080/0966369X.2012.736249.
2004 Review of The scandal of the state: women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India. Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan. Environment & Planning D: Society & Space. 22(6): 936.