Ethnographic portraits of disabled Turkish Kurdish veterans provide unique insights into war trauma and activism
Explores how veterans' experiences shape political subjectivities and communities
Analyzes the role of class, gender, and ultranationalist right-wing politics in veterans' lives
Visits military hospitals, commemorations, and everyday spaces of care and intimacy
Essential reading for scholars of anthropology, masculinity, and disability studies
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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, Açiksöz examines how veterans’ experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrac
