Did you notice? The Global South has just shifted the power
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Inspired by Táíwò's call to investigate the “omissions and blind spots” (2022: 5) of the decolonization movement, we posit that important threads of both the decolonization and “shift-the-power” movements share (neo-)colonial assumptions. They overestimate the importance of “development industry” of bilateral donors, multilateral lenders and international NGOs for everyday life and public policy in most of the Global South. The middle-income countries where most of the global population live have been decolonising their world for decades, building viable polities, societies and economies that are neither modelled after nor dependent on the West. Yet an important thread of the decolonization literature continues to equate decolonizing the development industry with decolonizing development. This, we contend, is a sideshow. The main challenge for decolonization and shifting-the-power must be to decolonize those elements in the Global South adhering to old colonial practices.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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 it