Troublesome Indigestion: The “Return” of Omar Khadr and Post-Racial Politics of Citizenship in Canada
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Abstract
This article examines the relationship between legal, political and media discourses surrounding the much publicized return of Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. Three main figures of return appear here: first, Khadr’s literal return to Canada, his country of birth, in September of 2012. This homecoming has sparked lively political, legal and public debates about Canadian citizenship, which lead to a second form of return: the return of racism, in its contemporary “post-racial,” colour-blind and/or civilizationalist forms, that permeate debates surrounding Khadr’s (and his family’s) membership in Canada. Finally, I consider what happens when Khadr is neither successfully assimilated nor “excreted” by the state or by its imaginary community of citizens. This return, which I figure as a kind of troublesome indigestion, is revealed on the rare occasions when Khadr’s own words have been made public, when he insists on speaking as a rights-bearing citizen and a normal Canadian young person, despite relentless legal, political and discursive attempts to cast him out. I suggest that these can be read as moments when that which has been deemed “indigestible” makes a claim for incorporation within the imaginary and civic community, thereby revealing the mechanism of expulsion as in fact constitutive of national or civic identity.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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