Sovereign Emergencies: Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics. By Patrick William Kelly
Bibliographic record
Abstract
For both specialists and newcomers, Sovereign Emergencies is a strong synthesis of what we know about how individuals and institutions built the idea and exercise of human rights across national boundaries. The author proposes to recover Latin American agency in the building of global human rights norms in the 1970s and to explain why that decade is so central to understanding the rise of human rights as a problem. With the exception of a scattershot conclusion that brings parts of the story up to 2007, the book is about the 1970s and early 1980s. Chapter 1 concerns how activists and clergy announced Brazilian military regime violence in a manner that entrenched torture as a global human rights issue. Three chapters focus on the Chilean dictatorship and the attendant transformation of United Nations and Organization of American States agencies into disruptors of the complacent claims of dictators that national sovereignty was a barrier against foreign criticisms. There is a chapter on the creation of a human rights solidarity movement in the United States followed by two chapters on dictatorship in Argentina and its international impact.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".