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Accepted Paper:

When truth is already occupied  
Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Paper short abstract:

This paper will address the predicament of telling truth about truth-tellers, of following fearless speech, and of speaking without a certain claim on action.

Paper long abstract:

This paper will address meta-parrhesia: the predicament of telling truth about truth-tellers, of following fearless speech, and of speaking without a certain claim on action. The classic critical approach of unveiling falters in the face of figures who are, as Didier Fassin puts it, untouchable by virtue of their relation to moral value and furthermore articulate in their self-representation. Using the example of Médecins Sans Frontières, an organization that has defined itself through a potent combination of dramatic action and blunt rhetoric, I examine the problem of discussing things known but unresolved.

Panel P18
What is truth? - reflections on 'the world's' responses to anthropological knowing
  Session 1