Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
Salih Can Açıksöz
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.
Година:
2020
Издателство:
University of California Press
Език:
english
ISBN 10:
0520305302
ISBN 13:
9780520305304
Файл:
PDF, 23.75 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2020