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Record W4406053205 · doi:10.1057/s41311-024-00659-5

Homo-humanitarianism: queering the Afghan crisis and evacuations

2025· article· en· W4406053205 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ahmad Qais Munhazim

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Politics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAfghanInternational political economyInternational relationsPolitical scienceCollective securityPolitical economySociologyLawPolitics

Abstract

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Abstract Upon the international community’s exit from Afghanistan in August 2021, the West made Afghanistan into a crisis, covering up its decades of violence while dehumanizing Afghans. Afghanistan was constructed as a site of oppression and homophobia, allowing the West to situate itself once again as not only ‘civilized’ but ‘queerly civilized’. From the United States to Canada, France and Ireland, saving the ‘at risk’ Afghan queers, trans and women became an international humanitarian responsibility. How and why did queer and trans Afghans all a sudden become “at risk” and “in need of saving” individuals? How did the Western governments and humanitarian regimes politicize queer and trans Afghan lives and “savings”? Based on a de/colonial ethnography of the Afghan evacuations at the moment of humanitarian exit, this article introduces the concept of ‘homo-humanitarianism’ through which the West so-called saved queer and trans Afghans upon/post its abrupt withdrawal while constructing Afghanistan as a site of perpetual violence and Afghans as homophobic.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
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: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.044
Threshold uncertainty score0.087

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0180.039
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0000.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
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 head0.018
GPT teacher head0.242
Teacher spread0.224 · 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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