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Record W3030531818 · doi:10.22215/etd/2014-10405

NGOs and Memory in Colombia: The Case of Medellin

2014· dissertation· en· W3030531818 on OpenAlexaffabout
David Barrios Giraldo

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMemory, violence, and history
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeSet (abstract data type)Collective memoryPolitical scienceProcess (computing)Government (linguistics)Social memoryCivil societySociologyComputer scienceCognitive sciencePsychologyPolitics

Abstract

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This thesis is concerned with analyzing the production of narratives of the past in different social contexts such as those to which the NGOs of Medellín have access.My approach to memory, from the concept of institutional memory, tries to understand the ways in which institutions such as NGOs occupy a place within the power structures and how they have an impact on the representations of the past.This thesis is organized into three chapters.The first chapter develops the theoretical framework of the thesis in which I argue the importance of the concept of institutional memory.In the second chapter, I seek to identify the origins of contemporary memory practices in Medellín.I concentrate on describing how the process of urbanization of Medellín made local memory practices very particular and noteworthy.Throughout this chapter, I unveil the historical links between the already mentioned organizational experiences and the contemporary interest in memory.And finally, in the third chapter, I examine a set of important institutional memory initiatives to demonstrate how neighborhood-based organizations were dispossessed of their own ways of remembering.In this chapter, I demonstrate that such practices entered into the civil society organization model promoted by NGOs and the local government.This work represents my interpretation of the process described.It contributes to a suggestive understanding of the processes regarding memory practices and commemoration over the past twenty years in Medellín.Six years ago, while working as dishwasher in an Italian restaurant in Halifax, I could not foresee the moment of writing my thesis acknowledgements.It seemed impossible back then but I stubbornly persevered.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.240
Threshold uncertainty score0.477

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0200.011
Scholarly communication0.0070.004
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.000

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.291 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2014
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