Constructing Dakar: cultural theory and colonial power relations in French African urban development
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines urban development and colonial power relations in the French West African capital of Dakar between 1902 and 1914. Founded in Senegal in 1857, Dakar was constructed to physically implement and visibly project France’s assimilationist conception of colonial power. Dakar’s transformation as a “French” city was central to the integration of its African inhabitants into French culture. However, at the same time that assimilation impacted Dakar’s development and population, the policies enacted by local French authorities gradually shifted to reflect the theory of cultural association, including the spatial segregation of African city-dwellers. In addition to addressing the complexities of colonial rule in Dakar, this thesis examines the ways the city’s indigenous residents negotiated their own lived experience, considering their agency and responses to colonial ruling strategies.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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 it