Refusal/film: diasporic-indigenous relationalities
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay situates the cultural-political practices of non-Indigenous, racialized diasporas with Audra Simpson’s concept of refusal. I frame diasporic film that generates alternatives to settler colonial relationships and imaginaries in terms of ongoing practices of diasporic refusal. To elaborate on what this refusal can look like, I turn to South Asian Canadian filmmaker Ali Kazimi’s experimental documentary Shooting Indians: A Journey with Jeffrey Thomas (1997), a profile of Iroquois photographer Jeffrey Thomas that self-reflexively explores the politics of spectatorship and representation through an examination of Native subjects of Edward Curtis’ portrait series. Understanding Shooting Indians’ refusal requires not only an analysis of its representational politics, but the contextualization of the film as (a) a generative effect of South Asian diasporic artists in Toronto engaging questions of Indigenous sovereignty and relationality through art and community discussion, and (b) as itself opening possibilities for continued conversations and cultural production among South Asian diasporas and Indigenous peoples in Toronto.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it