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Record W3112873792 · doi:10.3138/topia-014

The Intersecting Violence(s) of a Pandemic

2020· article· en· W3112873792 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Yasmin Jiwani

Bibliographic record

VenueTOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Security and Public Health
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsState of exceptionMetaphorAdversarySociologyPoliticsCritical discourse analysisDominance (genetics)State (computer science)Power (physics)SituatedUnderpinningMasculinityRacismPolitical sciencePolitical economyMedia studiesCriminologyGender studiesLawComputer securityLinguisticsEngineering

Abstract

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The COVID-19 pandemic has often been referred to in the media as a “war” against the socio-political global body. This discursive use of war as a metaphor implies not only a need for a united defence against an encroaching and insidiously pervasive enemy but also suggests that such a defence protects one and all. Clearly, this is not the case. This short essay tackles these questions using Stuart Hall’s notion of structured dominance to interrogate racial hierarchies and the media frames and filters that are used to obfuscate it in the Canadian settler state. It argues that a critical Canadian cultural studies perspective needs to examine where any racialized group is situated in the racial hierarchy of the nation state, and to what ends the racial logics underpinning their status are produced and reproduced through the currency of representations—both in the soft power of the media and the hard power of the state.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.617
Threshold uncertainty score0.943

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.098
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.266 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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

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".

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Published2020
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