Protective Barriers and Entrapping Walls: Perceptions of Borders in the Post-Yugoslav Bosnian Diaspora
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article analyzes the violently changing border regime in the ex-Yugoslavian territories, particularly in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the 1990s from the point of view of those who lived through the period of transformation. The focus is on the ways in which local people conceived of the borders during this period and how they describe them in textual form in life-stories and poetry. The impact of both violence and (forced) mobility on imaginaries of borders is analyzed in order to understand how the violent transformation of the border regime affects individuals’ relationship to the political landscape. The central argument is that such periods of change allow us to see the temporalities and process-like character of borders more clearly. In this particular case the perception of borders changes from non-visible to leaky and insecure and finally to entrapping walls between life and death. Border crossing is seen as an act that changes the status of the individual; simultaneously the violent changes in the border regime change the identities of places in dramatic ways. The case highlights the importance of analyzing the effects of rapid political changes to the bordering processes and to the ways in which variously positioned putative border crossers encounter them.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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.
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".