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"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…
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3 editions- Other · English · 2019University of California Press · 267 pages · 9780520305304
- Other · English · 2019University of California Press · 272 pages · 9780520973350
- Other · English · 2019University of California Press · 267 pages · 9780520305298
Military administrationPolitical violenceTurkey, social conditionsVeteransDisabled veteransSocial conditionsPolitische AnthropologieDisability Studies