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 visceral threat of dismemberment evoked by veterans’ embodied performances. The public debates surrounding “prosthesis repossession” cases extended well beyond veteran welfare issues, inscribing all sorts of social and political anxieties on the amputee veteran body, such as anxieties around the incommensurability between the value regimes of nationalism and neoliberalism or around the Syrian refugees. Providing a window into larger questions about the interconnections between disability, gender, nationalism, and neoliberal capitalism, prosthesis repossession cases show us how debt and disability coproduce each other at the nexus of consumer debt and nationalist welfare in Turkey. By homing in on the prosthetic re-membering and dismembering of veteran bodies in a rapidly changing health milieu, we see how the political economy of violence and the violence of political economy become complicit in the production of debt, dismemberment, and prosthetic rehabilitation.

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假肢债务

随着 2000 年代土耳其福利和银行系统的新自由主义重组，土耳其库尔德战争的许多退伍军人因假肢付款失败而面临债务强制执行。退伍军人通过公开移除和展示他们负债累累的假肢，将自己的身体变成债务和牺牲的眼镜，以此来回应讨债。媒体对这些假肢眼镜的兴趣进一步放大了退伍军人具身表演引起的肢解的内脏威胁。围绕“假肢收回”案件的公开辩论远远超出了退伍军人福利问题，在被截肢的退伍军人身上铭刻了各种社会和政治焦虑，例如对民族主义和新自由主义价值体系之间的不可通约性或围绕叙利亚难民的焦虑。假肢收回案例为我们提供了一个关于残疾、性别、民族主义和新自由主义资本主义之间相互联系的更大问题的窗口，向我们展示了债务和残疾如何在土耳其消费者债务和民族主义福利的关系中相互产生。通过在快速变化的健康环境中对退伍军人身体的假肢重新记忆和肢解，我们看到暴力的政治经济和政治经济的暴力如何成为债务、肢解和假肢康复的同谋。