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OverviewSacrificial 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Salih Can AciksozPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780520305304ISBN 10: 0520305302 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 03 December 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIllustrations 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 IndexReviewsAciksoez effectively reminds us of how otherwise unmarked bodies in theories of sovereignty and biopolitics (and necropolitics) are already always gendered, classed, and ethno-racialized in specific ways. * Anthropology Book Forum * 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. * Conflict and Society * 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. * Conflict and Society * Author InformationSalih Can Açiksöz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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