Hegemonic masculinities, caste, and the body: interactions in local and transnational spaces
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I frame the current dissertation in theories of hegemonic masculinity, geographies of masculinities, embodiment, and feminist political ecology. For this research, I conducted a total of 45 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with men belonging to the upper Jat caste in Punjab and Canada. The work is comprised of three standalone but interrelated research articles addressing Jat masculinities in local and transnational spaces, the relationship of Jats with the land, and caste embodiment. In the first article, I explore how upper caste Jat masculinities interact with space and arable land. That is, I address the geographical contingency of hegemonic masculinities and how they are produced, constituted, and contested in relation to the land. Findings suggest that ownership of arable land is crucial to the construction and performance of Jat masculinities and a threat to the loss of land gives rise to vulnerabilities and challenges to which men respond by strategizing their masculine performances. The second article considers how body and embodiment interact with caste and masculinities. In this article, I explore why caste visibility is important in the constitution of Jat masculinities and how caste visibility is achieved through the male body in local and transnational spaces. Findings suggest that the processes through which caste is embodied overlap with the principles of hegemonic masculinity and they both complement each other. The third article focuses on Jat men in transnational spaces in Canada. By exploring Jat men’s experiences as international students in Canada, I explore how landownership, caste identity and transnational communication shape Jat masculinities in transnational spaces. Findings suggest that landownership in Punjab remains an important determining factor for young men’s masculinities in Canada. I also investigate how these young men are ‘othered’ in transnational spaces and how their masculinities are negotiated in such contexts.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".