Nostalgia and Poetry: Reflections on Research, Creative Expression, and Fieldwork Across Borders
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper takes an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to methodological consider-ations of insider/outsider status in the context of transnational research projects. The focus is on expatriate nostalgia in relation to feminist research. Poetry, in the form of fieldwork journal, is presented as a productive outlet for nostalgia—a method of feminist self-reflexivity that can strengthen the researcher’s critical intuition, clarify standpoint and interpretive approach, and mediate the condition of multiple belonging. In the context of fieldwork conducted in South Africa in affiliation with a Canadian university, expatriate nostalgia is highlighted as a neglected area of feminist methodological inquiry. The paper further considers the productive potential of creative expression to the process of negotiating identity, dissecting power relations, and tran-scending dichotomous understandings of insider/outsider status in the context of academic research.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.035 | 0.046 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.031 | 0.109 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.022 | 0.023 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.020 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".