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CMES: Salih Can Aciksoz – Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey

Chronicling the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey’s counterinsurgency war against Kurdish guerrillas, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey, is an ethnographic study of gender, embodiment, and nationalism in a war-torn nation. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans’ everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, the book provides a historically grounded analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans’ bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. Examining how veterans’ experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics, the work contributes to our understanding of the global rise of right-wing nationalisms and militarisms from an anthropological viewpoint.

Sponsored by the Kurdish Studies project.

Oct 28, 2020 05:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)