...Didier Fassin Drawing on a distinction made by J. L. Austin in 1950, when the Geneva Convention on Refugees was in preparation, one can pose two complementary questions about the situation of asylum sixty years after its ratification: What is the truth of asylum? And how are the accounts of asylum...

...Deborah Posel Duke University Press 2008 History as Confession: The Case of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Deborah Posel In the iconic history of human suffering...

... de Kirchner, unleashed a storm of accusations and counteraccusations, political speculation, rumors, and legal battles. In this article, I explore the multifold processes of truth-making around this event. In proposing the term “moral economy of truth,” I signal how understandings of truth serve...

....” Representations 1 : 118 -46. Coalition for the Truth about Africa. 1990 . “The Truth about Africa.” Toronto, (photocopied pamphlet). Crapanzano , Vincent . 1980 . Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Da Breo , Hazel . 1989 . “Royal Spoils: The Museum...

...Shruti Kapila This article aims to reconstruct Gandhi as a political thinker. In so doing it argues that truth rather than nonviolence was the central category of Gandhian politics. Truth for Gandhi was a capacity that broke with the consensual and took the form of an insistent visibility. Gandhi...

..., material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific . Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Historic Truths / Looking at Earth John Martone For my generation, the “conquest” of space and the war in Vietnam were twin...

... meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal . The show deployed new storylines to maintain the innocence of the traditional celebration in the face of mounting antiracist critique by refabricating truths that not only...

... official underestimates of US‐caused civilian harm in anti‐Islamic State operations, exemplifying journalism's ability to “speak truth to power.” Yet in questioning official death tallies, journalists failed to challenge the rationale offered for this death: an accidental exception or necessary excess...

... on multiple dispersed, decentralized sources and has emerged during a period of great turbulence and acrimony in the public sphere, when the very notion of truth is up for grabs. Despite its ambiguity, sacropolitics offers a range of related, collectively generated intimations or visions of what the future...

... ability to produce “truth,” and that translational research is a signifier of a contemporary biomedicine that operates “in the trans-,” under the sign and context of various movements across domains that see the production, articulation, and problematization of knowledge and value. This argument...

... and to serve as a conduit for truth. Viewed in the context of the semiotic ideologies they presuppose, conflicts over the actions and authority of the press can reveal some of the difficulties posed by the moral narrative of modernity and the common sense of contemporary liberalism. Copyright 2009 by Duke...

... of land as colonial property is the stabilizing force on which colonial disavowal rests. It ends by suggesting, however, that settler colonialism can never, in truth, be stabilized. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 settler colonialism disavowal fetishism...

...Jennifer C. Nash; Samantha Pinto This paper sits with the understudied subgenre of the contemporary black maternal memoir in the Black Lives Matter era. We read Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin’s Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin and Lezley McSpadden’s Tell the Truth and Shame...

...Frédéric Keck Paul Rabinow, interviewed by Frédéric Keck, reflects on the ethics of truth claims and on how his training in philosophy and anthropology led him from Moroccan saints to biotech scientists in California, France, and Iceland. 2014 PR: In addition to the general context...

.... This includes facing uncomfortable questions about the lack of accountability within the redress movement itself, reckoning with the unsettled figure of victims who collaborated with the Japanese in victimizing fellow compatriots, and asking what it means to be faithful to historical truths within the context...

... to Coexistence Steven Sampson n “Reconciliation after Ethnic Cleansing” (Public Culture 14 [spring 2002]: II 281–304), John Borneman stresses that reconciliation requires acknowledging personal loss. Through witnessing, listening, and truth-telling, we can restore trust...

...Richard Ashby Wilson © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Richard Ashby Wilson is a reader in social anthropology at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (2001), editor (with Jane Cowan and Marie-Benedicte Dembour...