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Is There a Politics of Postcoloniality

2005· article· en· W1498027298 on OpenAlex
Diana Brydon

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueMspace (University of Manitoba) · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsSociologyCivilityIdeologyBlameBalance (ability)OppressionPower (physics)State (computer science)CitizenshipAestheticsMedia studiesLawPolitical scienceSocial psychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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From the author’s Canadian-based perspective, this paper investigates the contexts of the politics of postcoloniality in the contemporary period to query the relation between decolonising the state and decolonising the mind as it is currently being theorized in academic circles. Working through a variety of slogans that now limit the productivity of a politics of postcoloniality (the “politics of blame,” strategies of “them and us,” the assumptions behind “speaking truth to power” and “the personal is political”), the paper advocates attention to alternatives that balance critique with imagining otherwise. Arguing that postcolonial politics take place within a larger crisis of politics itself, the paper suggests that foundational assumptions (about citizenship, civility, public and private spheres) embedded within liberation struggles and the academic study of the postcolonial require further clarification within contexts of “unlearning” and the acceptance of “dilemmatic spaces” of engagement. In working through the ideological and institutional constraints facing postcolonial studies today, the paper finds hope in several different engagements with indigeneous cultures and histories that seek to revise the conditions through which political dialogue might take place.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.474
Threshold uncertainty score0.421

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 studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.215
Teacher spread0.199 · 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