Emplaced witnessing: Commemorative practices among the Wayuu in the Upper Guajira
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores witnessing in the context of mass violation of human rights. It analyses the commemorative practices of a Wayuu community around the 2004 massacre when six Wayuu, four of them women, were killed and the entire community forcibly displaced from their ancestral territory in the north-eastern part of Colombia (Guajira region). The annual commemoration temporarily brings the displaced back to their land to share, remember and have political discussions on the demands for justice and return to the territory. During these days, the Wayuu perform plural forms of testimony through the recreation of everyday life; the walking and re-signifying of the paths and sites of destruction; the remaking of places; and the re-enactment of their demands for return. This analysis highlights the restorative nature of these emplaced forms of witnessing and the role of testimony through which leaders and elders give public voice to their suffering and resistance to violence. These practices relocate the witnessing authority of outsider researchers in a relational field where survivor testimonial practices share space, knowledge production and political agendas with outsider witnesses.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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.
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