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Record W4242811309 · doi:10.3138/cras.38.1.83

Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib, and the New Imperialism

2008· article· en· W4242811309 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Bruce Tucker, Sia Triantafyllos

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Review of American Studies · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTorture, Ethics, and Law
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetanarrativeTortureCulpabilitySpectacleMoralityMainstreamNarrativeCriminologySociologyLawMedia studiesHistoryPolitical scienceLiteratureArtHuman rights

Abstract

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Abstract: This is an examination of the official reaction by the Bush administration to the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the coverage of the story by mainstream American media. By doing so, the authors seek to explain the emergence of what in retrospect became a metanarrative about Abu Ghraib that limited debate and public understanding to a narrow range of questions about individual moral culpability. Attention will be given to how the story was framed, in both its emphases and silences, and particularly to how it came to be remembered. In the case of Abu Ghraib, the spectacle of the same set of photographs shown repeatedly kept the focus on individual perpetrators and the morality of their behaviour, creating a narrative limited to the actions of a few individuals. This metanarrative allowed Americans to exempt themselves from confronting race and the racialized violence that structures both the discourse and the practice of the so called “war on terror.”

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.133
Threshold uncertainty score0.264

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.013
Scholarly communication0.0070.005
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.045
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.296 · 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

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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Citations12
Published2008
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