When Girls Walk: Mobilities of and Resistance to Affective Atmospheres of Unwelcome
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Developing a framework of “affective atmospheres of unwelcome” from the work of Locatora Radio and Anderson (2009), Stewart (2008), and Thompson (2017), I examine how affective build-up and circulation suffuse a space in an atmosphere, as the atmosphere is taken up and felt in the bodies of street harassed individuals. I engage women’s narratives, the 2014 film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and practices of resistance and “response-ability” (Rentschler, 2014) in headphone listening practices and an online antiharassment photojournalism series to assert that women’s and gender nonconforming individuals’ experiences of “affective atmospheres of unwelcome” disclose street harassment as a persistent and ordinary patriarchal structure that intrudes on women, gender nonconforming, and queer bodies in public space. This article makes known commonplace acts of resistance that street harassed individuals utilize to move through and transform atmospheres of unwelcome and demonstrates how affects are political and contingent implementations of a place and culture.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".