Bibliographic record
Abstract
Can the memory of World War II in Francophone Africa be disentangled from that of the colonialism more broadly? Although the Free French period introduced changes in scale, it did not bring about as many shifts in kind. Take Edgard de Larminat's insistence that he retain the “machine” he inherited in 1940, and simply focus on increasing its yield. Many researchers have examined the memory and afterlives of the French empire in Africa. Jennifer Cole notes that in northwestern Madagascar ritual sacrifices serve to reverse the effects of colonization. This involves rewriting the colonial era while siphoning agency, authority, and domination from the colonial authorities to transfer them to the ancestors of the colonized. Achille Mbembe posits that in Cameroon the colonial period was experienced through the prisms of disease and misfortune. People grappled with it through this same interface, which is to say the allegory of cure and recovery. Cole adds that the memory of colonialism can be likened to a subterranean river, invisible for the most part until it periodically bubbles up to the surface. These readings are in some ways reminiscent of the so-called Vichy syndrome identified by Henry Rousso. Indeed, like the latter, the memory of colonialism has proven to be at once ubiquitous, variable, malleable, and usable. Schemes of resistance and collaboration were polysemous in the setting that concerns us, given that the colonial era was overlaid with a Free French one. Thus, one could be simultaneously an African collaborator with the French and a Free Frenchman resisting the Axis. Or conversely, one could be a Cameroonian Germanophile resisting the Gaullist war effort. Does this mean that one can discern a memory specific to the Free French episode in Africa? The Gaullist years have been regularly evoked, both before and after the decolonization wave of 1960. In the 1950s, General de Gaulle reactivated a myth born around 1944. In the words of Henry Rousso the myth in question ran as follows: “The history of France from 1940 to 1944 had been made in London and Algiers”.
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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 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.357 | 0.124 |
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".