Paul O'Leary. Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, c. 1830–1880.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is a study of the rich processional culture that flourished in the towns of early and mid-Victorian South Wales. The period saw an almost endless series of crowds winding their way through their towns' main streets. While not a novel cultural practice, the Victorian procession was more democratic than it had ever been, and as a result of the burgeoning newspaper industry, its impact on the consciousness of urbanites was greater than ever. Even if some town-dwellers happened to miss a particular “monster demonstration,” they could read about it, often at great length, in their local papers. In Paul O'Leary's hands, the procession is shown to be something that is richly suggestive of the multiple ways in which different groups reacted with each other and with the wider urban public. As others have argued, processions and parades can be read as texts, charged with meanings that can be teased out by the perceptive analyst. The book's opening sections demonstrate the author's impressive command of the scholarly literature, with references to an array of anthropologists, historians, and sociologists of street culture. Moreover, there are references throughout to parades in many different urban contexts—from Toronto to Barcelona and various points in between—that serve to contextualize the South Wales experience.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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