Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey

Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
ISBN-10
0520305302
ISBN-13
9780520305304
Category
Social Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2019-11-26
Publisher
University of California Press
Author
Salih Can Aciksoz

Description

Sacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey’s Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits, Açiksöz examines how veterans’ experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans’ everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans’ bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability.

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