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Podcast: New Books in Disability Studies
Episode: Salih Can Açıksöz, "Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey" (U California Press, 2019)
Description: Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey (University of California Press, 2020) is an exploration of âthe ways in which . . .veteransâ gendered and classed experiences of warfare and disability are hardened into politics . . .how self, community, and the world-making practices of disabled veterans get tangled up with ultranationalist politics in contemporary Turkey.â Drawing on extensive interviews and participant observations, anthropologist Salih Can Açıksöz traces the experiences of veterans of Turkeyâs ongoing counter-guerilla warfare in the countryâs predominantly Kurdish eastern region. In Turkey, military service is mandatory, part of a âheteropatriarchal contractâ between men and the state. Injury i...