Sacrificial Limbs - by Salih Can Aciksoz (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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, Aðc¸ksèoz 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Sacrificial Limbs</i> 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, <i>Sacrificial Limbs</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Aciksoz coherently articulates his arguments through the lenses of sociological, cultural, psychoanalytic, and political approaches as he concurrently manages to interrelate seemingly distant concepts, such as sacrifice, gender, and debt."-- "Acta Via Serica"<br><br>"Brings together meticulous ethnographic insight with rigorous conceptual analysis. . . . Açiksöz has written a beautiful ethnography that provides rare insight into the intimate lives of the protagonists of ultranationalist politics. It is a book that approaches its interlocutors with critical empathy, seeking to understand and lay bare what propels them to become protagonists in deadly violence."-- "Kurdish Studies"<br><br>"<i>Sacrificial Limbs</i> brings a critical approach to the often Eurocentric field of disability studies and contributes to gender studies and masculinity studies in the Middle East. Açiksöz's perspectives on sacrificial crisis, sovereignty, and authoritarianism will encourage debates about the anthropology of state and conspiracy, disappointment, and crisis and temporality."-- "American Ethnologist"<br><br>"An elegantly woven narrative that goes well beyond its manifest ethnographic aim and reads as an astute commentary on the recent past and present of Turkish politics. Combining theoretical rigor with ethnographic finesse, <i>Sacrificial Limbs</i> is an essential read for scholars of gender, disability, militarism, and political violence."-- "Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association"<br><br>"Offers a timely, rare, and robust look at the making and unmaking of political subjectivities, communities, and the state through a profound analysis of conscripts' experiences of war and bodily loss."-- "New Perspectives on Turkey"<br><br>"The strength of <i>Sacrificial Limbs</i> is twofold: on one hand, it delves deeply into the history of Turkish politics, culture, and social life while at the same time it opens up to a broader sphere of applicability for those interested in gender, sexuality, disability, nationalism, and politics."-- "Disability Studies Quarterly"<br><br>"The book is equally a work of political anthropology and medical anthropology and would easily be at home in upper- level undergraduate or graduate courses about either subject. With its careful attention to the sociocultural and political, and the embodiment of disabled masculinity, the book is also an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of disability anthropology, and one that clearly demonstrates how work on disability can push medical anthropology to attend to the political in new ways."-- "Medical Anthropology Quarterly"<br><br>"Açiksöz effectively reminds us of how otherwise unmarked bodies in theories of sovereignty and biopolitics (and necropolitics) are already always gendered, classed, and ethno-racialized in specific ways."-- "Anthropology Book Forum"<br><br>"An engaging, sophisticated contribution to the literature on conflict studies, political violence, medical anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies, <i>Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey</i> is likely to put Turkey on the map of world anthropology as never before."-- "Conflict and Society"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Salih Can </b><b>Açiksöz</b><b> i</b>s Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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