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Record W1556831646

Biographical Erasure as Oppression

2014· article· en· W1556831646 on OpenAlexaffabout
Denise Gastaldo

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicData Analysis and Archiving
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsErasureOppressionPoetrySociologyImmigrationComputer scienceLiteratureArtPolitical sciencePoliticsLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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In this short paper I argue that the migratory journey of many newcomers to Canada is marked by an experience of biographical erasure, which is detrimental to their health and wellbeing. First, I present some contextual considerations about migration, and mention some of my own experiences as an immigrant to introduce the concept of biographical erasure. In the second part of the paper, I present three poems that illustrate how biographical erasure shapes the experiences of research participants. While the notion of erasure was initially described in the introduction to these poems (Gastaldo, 2004), in this article, I expand the concept inspired by the idea of biographical emptying, an expression utilized by the Brazilian journalist and poet, Fabricio Carpinejar (2012).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.122
Threshold uncertainty score0.243

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.005
Science and technology studies0.0180.069
Scholarly communication0.0120.009
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.009
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.312 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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Published2014
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