Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520305298)

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, A iks z 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: Salih Can Aciksoz
ISBN-10: 0520305299
ISBN-13: 9780520305298
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2019
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d