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State Power and the Shaping of Archives in Malawi

2023· book-chapter· en· W4389879266 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Paul Lihoma

Bibliographic record

VenueArchives · 2023
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDigital and Traditional Archives Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutocracyEliteState (computer science)Power (physics)DemocracyGovernment (linguistics)Independence (probability theory)Political scienceCompensation (psychology)Public administrationLawPoliticsComputer science

Abstract

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Abstract As government records were generated from 1891 after establishment of the colonial administration in Malawi, access to government records by members of the general public started in the 1950s. By analysing how government records have been used by the society for many decades to-date, this chapter demonstrates the inherent power of the archives and, for instance, how the society prior to independence tapped the archival power to equip themselves with research data, information, and knowledge for different purposes; how the emerging autocratic one-party regime exerted its power over the archives to stifle access by the majority; and how, after the minority ruling elite had lost the power resulting from introduction of the democratic rule, the archives was freed up and local masses who had suffered from various atrocities during the dictatorial regime, relied on the archives to hold their oppressors accountable and, eventually, get compensation from the State.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.163
Threshold uncertainty score0.717

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.042
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.159 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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