Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann, Eds. Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies
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Abstract
Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann, eds. Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. 329 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 hc Since the publication of the English translation of Pierre Nora's seminal work on memory and history, Realms of Memory, in the mid 1990s, memory has become a hot topic for scholars in the social sciences and humanities. This interest has seen the publication of a number of books, many articles and even the launch of an ejournal (The Memory Connection) devoted to memory and the various ways it is expressed. There is a clear consensus that memory is constructed. Memories, as Nora demonstrated, are different from history. Memory is subject to the vagaries of the mind and is seldom static. Memories evolve through time and are constantly updated to suit the recollection and needs of the individual or society that creates them. Unlike history, memory cannot be subjected to the test of documentation. This book on memory and migration is a compilation of work from scholars from a wide variety of disciplines ranging from literature, through anthropology and political science to psychology. Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzman, with backgrounds in English and memory studies and communications technology and media studies respectively, have assembled contributions by thirteen scholars who are unified by their concern with memory and migration. book is organized into four sections: the Melancholy of no Return; Collective Memory Ghettos; the Smell of Flowers and Rotting Potatoes; and the Architectures of Memory. These are preceded by an introduction by Julia Creet which attempts to situate the chapters within the general context of the migration of memory and the memories of migration. Each chapter is referenced individually but a bibliography of all works cited is also provided at the end of the volume. An index is also provided. Ethnicity is an underlying theme of most, if not all, the chapters, but the focus of this work is memory, its construction and reconstruction. In most chapters, ethnicity is relevant mostly as a function of geographical displacement as when people are injected into alien environments and strive to reconstruct their memories within the context of a new ethnic and geographic reality. There are exceptions: in his chapter, The Cultural Trauma Process John Sundholm offers a penetrating analysis of the role of ethnicity in the construction of memory and identity, and Lauren Guyot analyzes the situation of Kurdish immigrants in France and the conflicting identities and loyalties of their French-born children. Ironically, while the region they left has changed, the diasporic community clings to a remembered past, one fixed at the time of migration. …
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.004 |
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".