<i>The Game</i> : Ritualized Exhaustion and Subversion on the Western Balkan Route
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The expression to go game is widely used among migrants transiting across the Western Balkan route to describe the attempt to cross a border irregularly. In the Bosnian canton of Una Sana, one of the crucial transit spaces across the route, migrants who go game are repeatedly and violently pushed back from the Croatian side of the border. They return to precarious managed facilities and makeshift camps, where they endure constant evictions, mistreatments, and neglect, while planning their next attempt to cross. This paper takes the vantage point of the game to propose a Bourdieusian reading of exhaustion and subversion on the route. It theorises the game as the sum of ritualised practices (habitus) through which migrants endure and subvert a politics of exhaustion diffusing across EUrope’s transit spaces; and situates it as a collective imperative exemplifying the generative and enduring force of autonomy of migration. Written almost a decade after the year of the so-called migration crisis that opened the political imaginary of the route, this article provides necessary reflections on how dynamics of exhaustion and subversion which developed within EUrope’s border regime sedimented into ritualised and relational practices complicating the already contested geographies of Europe’s transit spaces.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".