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Record W2126055470

Exploring the Orient from Within: Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke

2014· article· en· W2126055470 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Binayak Roy

Bibliographic record

VenuePostcolonial text · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSouth Asian Studies and Diaspora
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRhetoricIdeologyMulticulturalismNarrativeHumanismSociologyPoliticsShroudAestheticsHistoryPolitical scienceLawLiteratureArtPhilosophyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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This article discerns the explicit linking of imperialistic politics and self-serving humanist discourses which resulted in subjugation at various levels. It also undercuts the specious philosophy of the imperialists which inculcated the rhetoric of free trade and the internationalization of commerce as an ideological smokescreen to shroud their mercenary motives. Furthermore, it analyzes how the narrative re-invents the rich multicultural world created by the diverse business communities in Canton. Amitav Ghosh’s concern for subjectivities that have been subjugated and marginalized, are a case in point for a turn to ethics that is both evident and credible.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0140.017
Scholarly communication0.0070.006
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.088
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.145 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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