Cultural Cooperation or Incorporation: Recollecting and Presenting Borderland Materiality at the External Border of the European Union
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Abstract
This paper focuses on the role of culture in the narratives of bordering at the external border of the European Union. During the Soviet period, the present Polish–Ukrainian border was closed and historically this ceded borderland has been imagined as a “Borderland ” with specific meaning for Poles. In the last decades it has become a contact zone between nations, discourses and social imaginaries. Here culture has become a resource for transcending national and EU borders, but the recent border changes, as well as those in the past, connect also with borderland materiality. The ways that material heritage and the border become part of bordering narratives, as a boundary object and border figure, suggest not only different connections established between the past and the present, but also diverse conceptualizations of border crossing culture and cross-border relations. In case of cross-border cooperation, material heritage is a resource that supports the values of cooperation, but makes the border invisible. At the same time, the border becomes part of presenting national cultures when immigrants are integrated into local communities. I argue, based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, that local actors in their bordering narratives, by their personal recollections of borderland materiality, suggest alternatives to such cross-border networking and presentations of cultural diversity. These recollections suggest negotiations of the border and the current processes of bordering, such as “cross-border” cooperation. Here material heritage can be a means for incorporating present diversity at home and for negotiating cultures at the border. The doing of border crossings is a means for engaging communities and may result in cultural incorporation. Such borderland multiculturalism relativizes the border on the individual and community level as well as implies Europeanization as a negotiation between the self and the European.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.013 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".