Sugar cropscapes in Trinidad: reframing sweetness and power
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Plantation economy theorists argue that sugar plantations violently reconstituted societies and environments in the West Indies. What is less clear, however, is how humans and nonhumans adopted and adapted sugar to meet their own needs, values and systems of meaning-making, under the constraints of the plantation system and according to the affordances of land, soil, water and crop. In this paper, we utilise the cropscape method to explore how Trinidadian sugarcane became domesticated by humans and nonhumans in post-emancipation Trinidad. We present oral history research collected from Indian Trinidadians from 2009 to 2016 to provide an alternative framing to global sugar histories presented by Sidney Mintz and others. The paper reveals unique assemblages of people, practices, knowledges, crops and environments that capture Indian Trinidadian experiences of sugar in Trinidad
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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