Bibliographic record
Abstract
Basu, as ethnographer, details the experiences of two individuals, Alokananda Roy, established classical dancer and Mr B.D. Sharma, appointed Additional Director General of Correctional Services, West Bengal Police in 2005. Basu’s fieldwork (which begins in 2008) describes and analyses their introduction of dance into the male and female prison communities of West Bengal. Small workshops importantly become major public performances of Tagorean dance dramas played to large and influential public audiences. Improvisation in this project works at a number of levels. The subject and content of the dance dramas, while built around classical themes of good and evil, the rule bound v unpredictability, lend themselves to formal artistic improvisatory interpretations. These are not just performed, but lived in the experiences of prisoners and guards as well as through civic processes as these slowly bend in response to the new energy. The effort gradually provokes change, seen simultaneously in the attitudes and practices of the prisoners towards greater levels of interest, self reliance, respect, and self organisation, as well as in the policy and rules of penal organisation in the region of West Bengal. Artistic improvisation opens up doubt in this case study in the social realm, challenging the instituted physical and emotional separation between prisoners and non-prisoners in quite practical, judged ways that do not dissolve but alter the system.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".