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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.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 272
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
03 December 2019
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520305304
Format: Paperback
"An engaging, sophisticated contribution to the literature on conflict studies, political violence, medical anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey is likely to put Turkey on the map of world anthropology as never before."
Salih Can Açiksöz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Preface: Entering a Gray Zone
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 • Being-on-the-Mountains
2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State
3 • Of Gazis and Beggars
4 • Communities of Loss
5 • Prosthetic Revenge
6 • Prosthetic Debts
Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities
of Political Violence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Preface: Entering a Gray Zone
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 • Being-on-the-Mountains
2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State
3 • Of Gazis and Beggars
4 • Communities of Loss
5 • Prosthetic Revenge
6 • Prosthetic Debts
Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities
of Political Violence
Notes
Bibliography
Index