From the shadows to the light: elite commemorations and memory politics after the war of a Thousand Days in Colombia, 1904–1910
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Abstract
This article examines how Colombian elites reconstructed national identity after the War of a Thousand Days (1899–1902) by redirecting collective memory from recent conflicts toward unifying foundational narratives. Focusing on Rafael Reyes’ presidency (1904–1909) and the 1910 centennial, it argues that post-conflict memory making relied on “institutional mediation”: organizational frameworks that balanced competing memory claims while channeling diverse energies into shared commemorative goals. Institutions such as the Academia Colombiana de Historia, the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul and urban improvement societies negotiated between national reconciliation, regional autonomy and popular inclusion through industrial exhibitions, monument dedications and charitable activities. These efforts managed divisions not by erasing alternative narratives but by creating flexible mechanisms for coexistence. Yet regional resistance seen in Cartagena’s 1910 boycott and Antioquia’s Catholic modernity model revealed the limits of centralized projects, underscoring that forging a cohesive national identity remained an ongoing negotiation rather than a settled elite achievement.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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