ISBN:
9780520973350
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Açıksöz, Salih Can, 1976 - Sacrificial limbs
Keywords:
Disabled veterans Social conditions 20th century
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Disabled veterans Social conditions 21st century
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Political violence
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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anthropology
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commemorations
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conflict in middle east
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disability
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disabled veterans of turkeys kurdish war
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embrace of right wing politics
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essential
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everyday lives and political activism
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examination of middle east veterans
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masculinity
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military hospitals
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political demonstrations
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scholars
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students
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veterans everyday spaces
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veterans experiences of war and disability
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vivid
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Türkei
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Männlichkeit
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Kriegsbeschädigter
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. Entering a gray zone -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- One. Being-on-the-Mountains -- Two. The Two Sovereignties -- Three. Of Gazis and Beggars -- Four. Communities of Loss -- Five. Prosthetic Revenge -- Six. Prosthetic Debts -- Epilogue. Bodies and temporalities of political violence -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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, 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
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520973350
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