(Dis)avling Sacrifice

Veterans' Classification in Iran

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3638745
AutoresAhmad Moradi (0000-0002-0508-0420, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume71
Fascículo2
Páginas129-151
Data de publicação2021-07-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociologus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0377 • E-ISSN: 1865-5106
EditoraDuncker & Humblot GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.3790/soc.71.2.129
OpenAlexW4312616703
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas41

This paper examines how disabled Iranian and Afghan ex-combatants oppose hierarchies among veterans and demand welfare benefits in Iran by mobilising a state-propagated sacrificial reasoning that defies economic calculations and encourages pan-Islamic solidarity. I show how the scope of veterans’ benefits are conditioned by the biometric assessment of disability and migration policies, which in turn produce different classifications of war veterans and perpetuate civic inequalities. I address how struggles to secure benefit entitlements, which involves questioning the multiple ‘ordering’ of disability in state institutions, have made it possible for both Iranian and Afghan ex-combatants to contest the state’s exclusionary care practices. Building on the anthropological literature on biological citizenship, I contribute to an understanding of the relation between disability and citizenship acts, in which appealing to sacrificial reasoning provides a counterweight to legal, medical, and national boundaries of deservingness, and enables both citizens and non-citizens to stake claims to social equity

Citizenship · CONTEST · Equity (law · Law and economics · Paternalism · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · State (computer science · Welfare state · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society