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SUMMARY:The unbearable lightness of being: - Peter Redfield\, Department o
 f Anthropology\, University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill
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CONTACT:Dr Ruth Prince
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This paper addresses legacies of national origin wit
 hin global forms. Focusing on tensions related to human resources\, I cons
 ider the case ofthe humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (
 MSF or Doctors Without Borders). Since 1971\, MSF has grown into a large\,
  transnational NGO sponsoring a variety of medical projects worldwide. Ami
 d recent efforts to “decolonize” its human profile\, MSF has debated t
 he appropriate role\, motivation and remuneration of both international vo
 lunteers and local support staff it hires at mission sites. Given the rang
 e of routes situated persons must travel to achieve mobility\, the organiz
 ation’s conflicting impulses place it in a classic double bind: to remai
 n mobile it must limit local attachments\, while to achieve equality it mu
 st embrace them. The figure of the expatriate thus suggests a mundane meas
 ure for the threshold of inequality.
LOCATION:Centre of African Studies\, The Mond building
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