Bibliographic record
Abstract
Plachimada is a small village in the Palakkad district of Kerala in south India.It is a place where people, primarily dalit and adivasi 1 landless agricultural labourers, depend on groundwater for domestic and agricultural purposes.In 2000, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages (P) Ltd., a subsidiary of the Coca-Cola Company, set up a plant in Palakkad.As with similar bearers of 'development' and 'progress', the plant was initially welcomed by many in the area.Soon however, a noticeable deterioration in the quality and quantity of groundwater led to a campaign against the plant.2 The plant ceased operations in 2004, primarily as a result of the campaign, even though related disputes have been through several rounds of litigation.The case is currently pending adjudication before the Supreme Court of India.3 The campaign in Plachimada was spearheaded by Mailamma, a local adivasi woman -a mother, a grandmother, and a farmhand.Her commitment to the campaign until her death in January 2007 reflected her belief that the loss of access to water was attributable to the excessive exploitation of groundwater by the beverage plant.The belief arises from her 'everyday experiences' 4 that involve ensuring availability of water for her family and for agriculture.This belief is shared by all those who remain committed to the struggle.It is shared by the women and men in Plachimada who have participated in sit-ins and protest marches since 2002 despite opposition, violent action by the police, and judicial set-backs.There are several ways of understanding struggles like the one in Plachimada.Legal analyses could involve a focus on relevant international human rights and environmental law Pooja Parmar is a Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.She may be reached at pparmar
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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 | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.061 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.013 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".