Salih Can Aciksoz Bücher

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 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.

Focusing on the implications of risk in prenatal diagnosis, this ethnographic study delves into the experiences of secular middle-class Turkish women and their families within Istanbul's obstetrics clinics and genetics laboratories. It examines how they navigate, resist, and negotiate the discourses surrounding risk during pregnancy and childbirth. By exploring the diverse desires, fears, and identity claims expressed by doctors and families, the work sheds light on the broader themes of gender, governmentality, and the societal impacts of genetic testing in late capitalism.