Alternate Perspectives on the Anglosphere: South Africa, India and Ireland
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Abstract
Rereading imperial history and theories of identity primarily from the perspective of South Africa challenges assumptions about sovereignty and power that inform shifting notions of an Anglophone or community. I demarcate three phases. first part of the paper looks at the British Empire in the crucial decade between the Anglo-Boer War and WW1, when Britain discovered the limits of its naval-based defense and its self-governing colonies started to assert themselves. Then the interwar period witnessed extensive debates over greater Dominion autonomy, both within the nascent British Commonwealth and among the members of the newly-formed League of Nations. results – including Irish independence but also India's abiding subordination – defined the edges of an Anglophone community that fused race and democracy. third part of the paper looks at the shifting boundaries within this Anglosphere in the aftermath of WW2, when Britain and the Commonwealth wrestled with new population mobility and the challenges of multiculturalism. Apartheid certainly played a key role in South Africa becoming an outlier by 1960, but its abiding similarities with the Dominions challenge the putatively natural pairing of Australia and Canada that continues into the 21st century. result is a bifurcated former empire: an alliance of formerly white democracies on the one hand and a community of post-colonial democracies that embrace non-discrimination and development on the other. core states of the Anglosphere belong to both. Overall, Commonwealth history challenges static or unitary views of identity and reverses key causal arrows in the security community literature. **** Thanks for your interest in this paper. I have removed it, however, because the final version is now available in published format. **** Audie Klotz, The Imperial Self: a perspective on Anglo-America from South Africa, India, and Ireland, in Anglo-America and Its Discontents: Civilizational identities beyond West and East, ed. Peter J. Katzenstein, pp. 81-104 (Routledge, 2012)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".