Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey

Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey

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…

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