Sacrificial Limbs - Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey

Zusatztext "Brings together meticulous ethnographic insight with rigorous conceptual analysis. . . . Açiksöz has written a beautiful ethnography that provides rare insight into the intimate lives of the protagonists of ultranationalist politics. It is a book that approaches its interlocutors with critical empathy, seeking to understand and lay bare what propels them to become protagonists in deadly violence." Informationen zum Autor Salih Can  Açiksöz  i s Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California! Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Salih Can Aciksoz
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780520305298
• ISBN: 978-0-520-30529-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Turkey, Social and cultural anthropology, Disability: social aspects, Military veterans, Gender studies: men and boys, Gender Studies: Men