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Sacrificial limbs : masculinity, disability, and political violence in Turkey / Salih Can Açıksöz.

By: Açıksöz, Salih Can, 1976- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2020Copyright date: 2020Description: xxiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520305298; 9780520305304Subject(s): Disabled veterans -- Turkey -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Disabled veterans -- Turkey -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Political violence -- TurkeyAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Sacrificial limbsDDC classification: 362.4086/9709561 LOC classification: UB365.T8 | A27 2020
Contents:
Preface : entering a gray zone -- Introduction -- Being-on-the-mountains -- The two sovereignties : masculinity and the state -- Of gazis and beggars -- Communities of loss -- Prosthetic revenge -- Prosthetic debts -- Epilogue : bodies and temporalities of political violence.
Summary: "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, Açıksöz 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"--Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books The BIAA David H. French Library
Shelf 63 - Reading Room 		H2p AÇIKS 33059 Not for loan BOOKS-000000027175

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-234) and index.

Preface : entering a gray zone -- Introduction -- Being-on-the-mountains -- The two sovereignties : masculinity and the state -- Of gazis and beggars -- Communities of loss -- Prosthetic revenge -- Prosthetic debts -- Epilogue : bodies and temporalities of political violence.

"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, Açıksöz 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"--Provided by publisher.