ISBN:
9780520305304
,
9780520305298
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiv, 246 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Açıksöz, Salih Can, 1976- author Sacrificial limbs
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Açıksöz, Salih Can, 1976 - Sacrificial Limbs
DDC:
362.4086/9709561
Keywords:
Disabled veterans Social conditions 20th century
;
Disabled veterans Social conditions 21st century
;
Political violence
;
Türkei
;
Männlichkeit
;
Kriegsbeschädigter
Abstract:
Preface : entering a gray zone -- Introduction -- Being-on-the-mountains -- The two sovereignties : masculinity and the state -- Of gazis and beggars -- Communities of loss -- Prosthetic revenge -- Prosthetic debts -- Epilogue : bodies and temporalities of political violence.
Abstract:
"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, Açıksöz 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"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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