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.
Author(s): Salih Can Açıksöz
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: xxiv+247
Cover
Sacrificial Limbs
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
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
