Preserving and excluding: Examining the complexities of diasporic Persian heritage advocacy
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines Iranian diasporan civil society organizations’ (CSOs) role in preserving Persian cultural heritage in the face of the current Iranian regime’s exclusionary policies. We explored this concern by interviewing representatives from five US-based cultural CSOs. We found that these organizations primarily focus on intangible heritage due to their inability to engage directly with cultural preservation inside Iran. While these entities position themselves as advocates of heritage inclusivity, their focus on pre-Islamic heritage as a counterpoint to the regime’s emphasis on Islamic and Shia-centric narratives constitutes a selective approach to cultural representation. This framing risks sidelining cultural practices that developed later. We also found that these organizations have minimal direct influence on Iran’s current cultural policies. Instead, their primary impact lies in sustaining Persian identity, fostering historical continuity in the diaspora, and offering a counter-narrative to the regime’s cultural claims.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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