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Record W4414459996 · doi:10.4324/9781003667421

Contemporary Somali Diasporic Literature

2025· book· en· W4414459996 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Denish Odanga

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Maritime and Colonial Histories
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCosmopolitanismSomaliDiasporaEnlightenmentAmbivalenceContext (archaeology)

Abstract

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This book considers how the literature of the Somali diaspora deploys themes of ambivalent belonging in cosmopolitan spaces.  The book starts by building a picture of cosmopolitanism thinking from the European Enlightenment through to key postcolonial thinkers like Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, and Arjun Appadurai. However, the book shows that far from a picture of diverse groups coming together in mutual respect, in fact cosmopolitanism is affected by mutual phobias between migrants and their host cultures. These phobias stem from (ethno)racism, Islamophobia, classicism, clannism, xenophobia, and mutual superiority and inferiority complexes. In building this analysis, the book considers key texts from Ayaan Hirsi, Yasmeen Maxamuud, Jonny Steinberg, Nuruddin Farah, and Santur Ghedi, with settings that range from North America, Canada, Norway, Holland, Germany, South Africa, Saudi Arabia to East Africa.Considering literature on the Somali diaspora within the context of major cosmopolitan theories and postcolonial inflexions, this book is an important contribution to contemporary sociopolitical conversations, and will be of interest to researchers across literary and cultural studies.

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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: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.285
Threshold uncertainty score0.934

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 studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.252 · 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 designNot applicable
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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