Sacrificial Limbs

Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-520-30529-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 235 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aciksoz, Salih Can

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Salih Can Açiksöz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.