Sacrificial limbs masculinity, disability, and political violence in Turkey

"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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Açıksöz, Salih Can, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Temas:
1900-2099
Disabled veterans > Turkey > Social conditions > 20th century.
Disabled veterans > Turkey > Social conditions > 21st century.
Political violence > Turkey.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Political violence
Turkey
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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