Foragers and fictions in the Kalahari: Indigenous identities and the politics of deconstruction
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this paper I examine assumptions about race and identity that inform debates about indigenous rights in southern Africa. I illustrate how the ‘Kalahari debate’ and the more recent ‘indigenous peoples debate’ both rely on dubious assumptions about what ‘social construction’ means. I draw from public controversies and academic debates surrounding the forced relocation of San from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in Botswana to illustrate two key arguments in this paper: The first is that deconstructionism does not always confront the forms of justice it claims as its priorities, such as racism and class inequalities; the second is that the deconstructionist project commits us to problematic assumptions about what ‘race’ means and what ‘real’ identities must be.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| 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