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Record W1491204425

On (Not) Being Postcolonial

2005· article· en· W1491204425 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Tilottama Rajan

Bibliographic record

VenuePostcolonial text · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicJapanese History and Culture
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPostcolonialism (international relations)PostmodernismGovernmentalitySociologyPublic spherePoliticsIdentity (music)EnlightenmentCriticismGender studiesPrivate sphereAestheticsEpistemologyPhilosophyPolitical scienceLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Beginning from my own sense (as a romanticist and theorist who a postcolonial scholar) that the relations between who one is and what one does are highly complex, mediated, and oblique, this paper takes up the problematic nature of a current identity politics that interpellates scholars from visible minorities into working on their own ethnicities. I argue that postcolonialism part of a postmodern continuation of the Enlightenment public sphere, and that the public sphere of civil society, even though it arose as a way of providing enlightened criticism of the state, itself a form of what Foucault calls governmentality which, in this case, encourages compulsory ethnicity because of its usefulness for global Capital. Analysing this governmentality from the perspective of JeanPaul Sartre's demystification of the 'group and Jean-Luc Nancy's and Jean-Francois Lyotard's notions of community and the differend respectively, I suggest that the real contribution of a postcolonialism that stresses migrancy and displacement might lie, so much in the formation of new diasporic group identities, as in the very structure of not belonging that leads one to be perpetually uneasy with all group identities and institutions, past and present.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.947
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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