No more dancing for gods: constructing Taiwanese/Chinese identity through the Ilisin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper, I examine media narratives of the Ilisin, a touristised indigenous festival in Taiwan. A number of previous studies have examined tourist events and ethnic/racial relations as well as detailed explorations of ethnic relations and dynamic identities in a Taiwanese context. However, through the examination of media narratives of the Ilisin through a Foucauldian lens, I hope to provide a different theoretical conceptualisation of the formation of identities, especially in a Taiwanese setting. In this paper, I analyse 417 articles related to the Ilisin from three newspapers and three magazines between 1996 and 2005 through a Foucauldian discourse analysis. This method enables explorations of discursive practices producing different identity formations. In the end, I illustrate how different identities of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ emerge against the same discursive backdrop. This conclusion argues against a determinist and essentialist view of identity. Hence, it could provide reconsideration towards identity politics, and re‐conceptualisation of the formations and practices of identities.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".