Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Chocó, Colombia, by Tania Lizarazo
Bibliographic record
Abstract
P ostconflict Utopias, Tania Lizarazo's new book, seeks to disrupt hegemonic narratives that construct the Choc, a department (equivalent to a state or province) in northwestern Colombia, as an impoverished Afro-descendant frontier.Black women activists who have experienced armed violence and subsequent mass displacement are at the centre of her story.Since the 2000s, the Choc has seen an increase in political assassinations of activists, political leaders, and union leaders.The socio-political alienation that the region has experienced since colonial times made this violence possible.National discourses around the concept of mestizaje-an ideology based on the mixing of Euro-descendent, Afro-descendent, and Indigenous groups to create a mixed and homogeneous population-have been crucial in shaping a distinctive Colombian identity, both before and after independence.This process relegated Indigenous and Black communities to the margins of the country: the Caribbean, the Amazon, and the Pacific.While central highland cities like Bogot and Medelln, with their mestizo population, concentrated social, economic, and political power, the racial imaginary excluded the Choc, which straddles the northern Pacific and Caribbean coasts.In the Choc, the project of blanqueamiento-the attempt to whiten its own society-facilitated decades of devastating natural resource extraction by foreign and national capital.Post-conflict Utopias go beyond simply imagined or desired futures like blanqueamiento and show how the process of building utopias requires collaborative and speculative thinking, accompanied by a communal commitment to nurture and materialize these utopian realities through repeated performative action, or what Lizarazo calls rehearsals.In a region
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".