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Record W2564071729 · doi:10.1163/15685306-12341421

Can the Postcolonial Animal Speak?

2016· article· en· W2564071729 on OpenAlex
Fayaz Chagani

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Bibliographic record

VenueSociety and Animals · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEcocriticism and Environmental Literature
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnthropocentrismHumanismSubjectivityPostcolonialism (international relations)EpistemologyCriticismArgument (complex analysis)SociologyAestheticsField (mathematics)Environmental ethicsPhilosophySocial scienceLiteratureArt

Abstract

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This essay addresses the repression of considerations of human-animal relations in postcolonial studies. It suggests that because the field has not fully examined its own anthropocentrism, it continues to reproduce a rather conventional humanism in spite of many claims to the contrary. A central argument of the essay is that in failing to recognize the subjectivity of nonhuman animals, and accepting their exclusion from a moral universe reserved for humans, postcolonial criticism participates in the symbolic and physical violence committed against them. In terms of approach, the essay begins by tracing three humanist “moments” in the career of postcolonialism. This is followed by an assessment of the recent ecocritical turn in postcolonial literary studies. The essay concludes by considering whether humanism does in fact need to be overcome and what remains to be done for postcolonial thinking to more adequately confront “the question of the animal.”

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.930
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.193
Teacher spread0.182 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it