Yamashita's Post-National Spaces: "It All Comes Together in Los Angeles"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay explores Karen Fei Yamashita's representation of Los Angeles, not as a hub of multiculturalism, but as a nodal point that connects Asia, Central and South America, and Africa. Tropic of Orange cleverly depicts the roots and routes of transnational exchanges of labour and trade, and, in the process, shows the transformations of the local environment through these global contacts. The novel further conducts a spatial archaeology to highlight spatial injustices, focusing on the various (im)migrant populations that occupy a single city neighbourhood over time, regulations that restrict their access, and the unequal distribution of resources and development of infrastructures. Cet essai explore la représentation que fait Karen Fei Yamashita de Los Angeles, non comme une plaque tournante du multiculturalisme, mais comme un centre nodal qui raccorde l'Asie, l'Amérique centrale et l'Amérique du Sud, et l'Afrique. Tropic of Orange dépeint intelligemment les origines et les voies des échanges transnationaux en matière de main-d'oeuvre et de commerce et, au cours du processus, montre les transformations du milieu local par l'entremise de ces contacts internationaux. L'oeuvre effectue aussi une archéologie spatiale afin de mettre en lumière les injustices spatiales, et elle est axée sur les diverses populations d'(im)migrants qui occupent après un temps un seul quartier urbain, sur les règlements qui en restreignent l'accès, et sur la distribution inégale des ressources et du développement des infrastructures.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".