| dc.contributor.advisor |
Ali , Kamran Asdar , 1961 - |
|
| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Stewart , Kathleen |
|
| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Strong , Pauline T . |
|
| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Hartigan , John |
|
| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Cvetkovich , Ann |
|
| dc.creator |
Aciksoz , Salih Can |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2012 -06 -25T18 :27 :20Z |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2012 -11 -29T20 :46 :54Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2012 -06 -25T18 :27 :20Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2012 -11 -29T20 :46 :54Z |
|
| dc.date.created |
2011 -05 |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2012 -06 -25 |
|
| dc.date.submitted |
May 2011 |
|
| dc.identifier.uri |
http : / /hdl .handle .net /2152 /ETD -UT -2011 -05 -3472 |
|
| dc.description.abstract |
This dissertation concerns the disabled veterans of the Turkish army who fought against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK ) guerillas as conscripted soldiers . While being valorized as sacrificial heroes , “ghazis ,” in the realm of nationalist politics , these disabled veterans also face socio -economic marginalization and demasculinization anxieties in Turkey , where discrimination against the disabled is rampant . In such a context , disabled veterans emerged as important ultranationalist actors in the 2000s , championing a conservative agenda around the issues of state sovereignty , democratization , and Turkey’s pending European Union (EU ) membership .
In this dissertation , I locate the disabled veteran body at the intersection of medical and welfare institutions , nationalist discourses , and cultural formations of gendered normativity to trace the embodied socio -cultural and political processes that constitute disabled veterans as ultranationalist political subjects . I approach the politicization of disabled veterans through the analytical lens of the body in order to understand how veterans’ gendered and classed experiences of warfare , injury , and disability are hardened into an ultranationalist political identity . Exploring the tensions between the nationalist construction of the disabled veteran body and veterans’ embodied experiences as lower -class disabled men , I show how the dialectic between political rites of consecration and everyday rites of desecration translates disability into a political force . By unraveling the ways in which disability caused by violence generates new forms of masculinity , embodiment , and political identity , I illustrate how the disabled veterans’ suffering is brokered into militarization and ultranationalist protest in contemporary Turkey . |
|
| dc.format.mimetype |
application /pdf |
|
| dc.language.iso |
eng |
|
| dc.subject |
Disabled veterans |
|
| dc.subject |
Embodiment |
|
| dc.subject |
Violence |
|
| dc.subject |
Nationalism |
|
| dc.subject |
Sovereignty |
|
| dc.subject |
Turkey |
|
| dc.subject |
Kurdish conflict |
|
| dc.title |
Sacrificial limbs of sovereignty : disabled veterans , masculinity , and nationalist politics in Turkey |
|
| dc.description.department |
Anthropology |
|
| dc.type.genre |
thesis |
* |
| dc.type.material |
text |
* |
| thesis.degree.name |
Doctor of Philosophy |
|
| thesis.degree.level |
Doctoral |
|
| thesis.degree.discipline |
Anthropology |
|
| thesis.degree.grantor |
University of Texas at Austin |
|
| thesis.degree.department |
Anthropology |
|
| dc.date.updated |
2012 -06 -25T18 :27 :28Z |
|
| dc.identifier.slug |
2152 /ETD -UT -2011 -05 -3472 |
|