The Rohingya: An Ethnography of ‘Subhuman’ Life. By Nasir Uddin, Oxford University Press, 2020, 268 pp.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This ethnography by Nasir Uddin illustrates the protracted state-run marginalization, persecution, and vulnerability of Rohingya Muslims of Burma or present-day Myanmar.As a scholar born in Cox's Bazar and trained in anthropology in Bangladesh and abroad, the author has been researching and writing extensively on the Rohingya refugee issue for more than two decades.Prior to this ethnography, he investigated transnational movements, identity politics, deterritorialization, vulnerability, and statelessness, hence addressing the Rohingya crisis from a South Asian perspective.The present work develops the "subhuman life" theory-a theory that advances the narrative of vulnerability of statelessness in general, and clarifies further what is to be understood through categorizing the experiences of marginalized people in this way.The Rohingya comprises eight distinctive chapters, all of which play a role in helping Uddin construct the subhuman life theory.The introduction and the third chapter offer an in-depth context of Rohingya people in Myanmar and Bangladesh.As it relates to
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.002 |
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".