C Aciksoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 21225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Aciksoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Aciksoz |
| SIGNATURE | ACIKSOZ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5637-3374 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Queer Terrorists, Terrorist Queers
How do the so-called wars on terror impact queer lives and politics? This article addresses this question by exploring the racialized gender and sexual politics of Turkey's own brand of war on terror and its ramifications for LGBTQI+ lives. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with the disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war and public culture analysis, I reveal how the political construction of Kurdish militants as queer figures goes h…
Ethnographic Betrayals
What are the ethics and politics of anthropology in a world defined by the global surge of the populist and far right? How do ethnographers navigate the far-right field under conditions of political violence, state surveillance, and authoritarianism? In this article, I offer my fieldwork and postfieldwork experiences with ultranationalist ex-conscripts from Turkey’s Kurdish war as a window into these questions. My experiences demonstrate that ant…
Prosthetic Debts
Following the neoliberal restructuration of the Turkish welfare and banking systems in the 2000s, many veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war faced debt enforcement due to failed payments for prosthetic limbs. Veterans responded to debt collection by turning their own bodies into spectacles of debt and sacrifice by publicly removing and showcasing their debt-ridden prostheses. The media interest in these prosthetic spectacles further amplified the visc…
Sacrificial Limbs
He Is a Lynched Soldier Now
The violence that unfolded during the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has shaken Turkey’s political culture on many levels, including the relationship among gender, militarism, and nationalism. Both the brutality of the military against civilians and the collective violence targeting soldier bodies have created deep if transitory fractures in this relationship. One of the daunting tasks that awaits the ruling bloc in Turkey in the postcoup …
Grab 'Em by the Patriarchy
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Medical Humanitarianism Under Atmospheric Violence
Ghazis and Beggars
Cet article concerne les anciens conscrits turcs qui, blessés au cours des guérillas kurdes connaissent une double vie, entre sanctification nationaliste et marginalisation socio?économique. Il examine cette double vie du point de vue du genre et révèle que les expériences de l'invalidité conduisent ces hommes à développer une position ultranationaliste vis?à?vis de l'Union européenne
Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty
Over the last decade, disabled veterans of the Turkish Army who were injured while fighting against the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK; Kurdistan Workers' Party) have become national icons and leading ultranationalist actors. While being valorized as sacrificial heroes in nationalist discourse, they have also confronted socioeconomic marginalization, corporeal otherness, and emasculation anxieties. Against this backdrop, disabled veterans' organ…
Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty
Over the last decade, disabled veterans of the Turkish Army who were injured while fighting against the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK; Kurdistan Workers' Party) have become national icons and leading ultranationalist actors. While being valorized as sacrificial heroes in nationalist discourse, they have also confronted socioeconomic marginalization, corporeal otherness, and emasculation anxieties. Against this backdrop, disabled veterans' organ…
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
Prosthetic Debts
Following the neoliberal restructuration of the Turkish welfare and banking systems in the 2000s, many veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war faced debt enforcement due to failed payments for prosthetic limbs. Veterans responded to debt collection by turning their own bodies into spectacles of debt and sacrifice by publicly removing and showcasing their debt-ridden prostheses. The media interest in these prosthetic spectacles further amplified the visc…
Grab 'Em by the Patriarchy
Ghazis and Beggars
Cet article concerne les anciens conscrits turcs qui, blessés au cours des guérillas kurdes connaissent une double vie, entre sanctification nationaliste et marginalisation socio?économique. Il examine cette double vie du point de vue du genre et révèle que les expériences de l'invalidité conduisent ces hommes à développer une position ultranationaliste vis?à?vis de l'Union européenne
Queer Terrorists, Terrorist Queers
How do the so-called wars on terror impact queer lives and politics? This article addresses this question by exploring the racialized gender and sexual politics of Turkey's own brand of war on terror and its ramifications for LGBTQI+ lives. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with the disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war and public culture analysis, I reveal how the political construction of Kurdish militants as queer figures goes h…
Ethnographic Betrayals
What are the ethics and politics of anthropology in a world defined by the global surge of the populist and far right? How do ethnographers navigate the far-right field under conditions of political violence, state surveillance, and authoritarianism? In this article, I offer my fieldwork and postfieldwork experiences with ultranationalist ex-conscripts from Turkey’s Kurdish war as a window into these questions. My experiences demonstrate that ant…
He Is a Lynched Soldier Now
The violence that unfolded during the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has shaken Turkey’s political culture on many levels, including the relationship among gender, militarism, and nationalism. Both the brutality of the military against civilians and the collective violence targeting soldier bodies have created deep if transitory fractures in this relationship. One of the daunting tasks that awaits the ruling bloc in Turkey in the postcoup …
Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty
Over the last decade, disabled veterans of the Turkish Army who were injured while fighting against the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK; Kurdistan Workers' Party) have become national icons and leading ultranationalist actors. While being valorized as sacrificial heroes in nationalist discourse, they have also confronted socioeconomic marginalization, corporeal otherness, and emasculation anxieties. Against this backdrop, disabled veterans' organ…
Ghazis and Beggars
Cet article concerne les anciens conscrits turcs qui, blessés au cours des guérillas kurdes connaissent une double vie, entre sanctification nationaliste et marginalisation socio?économique. Il examine cette double vie du point de vue du genre et révèle que les expériences de l'invalidité conduisent ces hommes à développer une position ultranationaliste vis?à?vis de l'Union européenne
Medical Humanitarianism Under Atmospheric Violence
Brexit Referendum
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropologyMy immediate reaction to the results of the British Referendum on leaving or remaining in the EU was to remember Alexei Yurchak's book, Everything was forever, until it was no more (Yurchak 2006).In the book, Yurchak describes the feeling of many people in Russia when the Soviet Union broke up: it came as a complete shock because they thought it would never happen; but once it had happened, it w…
He Is a Lynched Soldier Now
The violence that unfolded during the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has shaken Turkey’s political culture on many levels, including the relationship among gender, militarism, and nationalism. Both the brutality of the military against civilians and the collective violence targeting soldier bodies have created deep if transitory fractures in this relationship. One of the daunting tasks that awaits the ruling bloc in Turkey in the postcoup …
Grab 'Em by the Patriarchy
Sacrificial Limbs
Prosthetic Debts
Following the neoliberal restructuration of the Turkish welfare and banking systems in the 2000s, many veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war faced debt enforcement due to failed payments for prosthetic limbs. Veterans responded to debt collection by turning their own bodies into spectacles of debt and sacrifice by publicly removing and showcasing their debt-ridden prostheses. The media interest in these prosthetic spectacles further amplified the visc…
Queer Terrorists, Terrorist Queers
How do the so-called wars on terror impact queer lives and politics? This article addresses this question by exploring the racialized gender and sexual politics of Turkey's own brand of war on terror and its ramifications for LGBTQI+ lives. Building on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with the disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war and public culture analysis, I reveal how the political construction of Kurdish militants as queer figures goes h…
Ethnographic Betrayals
What are the ethics and politics of anthropology in a world defined by the global surge of the populist and far right? How do ethnographers navigate the far-right field under conditions of political violence, state surveillance, and authoritarianism? In this article, I offer my fieldwork and postfieldwork experiences with ultranationalist ex-conscripts from Turkey’s Kurdish war as a window into these questions. My experiences demonstrate that ant…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Nationalism (3 works) · Turkish (3 works)