Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Jon D. Daehnke, eds. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2023, 294 pp. $90.00, cloth. ISBN 9780813069623
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Abstract
Cultural heritage has traditionally been viewed through the lens of preserving, collecting, excavating, and displaying artifacts.However, in recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of heritage within contemporary sociopolitical contexts.This shift has been particularly notable in discussions around identity, memory, heritage destruction during conflict and war, forced migration, and climate change.As the field of critical heritage studies continues to develop, there is a pressing need for more research to demonstrate that heritage is not only about the material culture of the past and present, it also serves as a sociopolitical force with the potential to shape the contemporary and future world.In this regard, Heritage and Democracy stands out as a significant volume that takes a critical approach for contextualizing heritage within the framework of democracy and heritage practice.The edited volume delves into a range of compelling and critical themes, including Indigenous heritage rights and decolonization, the intersection of heritage with economies and politics, the impact of forced migration on heritage, and the role of heritage in learning and education.Each chapter offers a unique and critical perspective, supported by case studies that explore colonial government approaches to heritage versus grassroots and activist practices, the influence of neoliberal economics on heritage preservation, the importance of dialogue and community engagement in heritage learning programs, and the tensions between top-down and bottom-up approaches to heritage management.The volume is structured around critical areas of heritage, each accompanied by insightful case studies.Part I is a general introduction to the volume, where the editors provide a critical analysis and conceptualization of democracy and its intersection with heritage and heritage practice.They offer a broad view of democracy, its practices, functions, and its wider impact on and linkage to heritage.Part II begins with a focus on democratic heritage practice, particularly emphasizing Indigenous rights and heritage management in the United States.This section continues with another chapter demonstrating Indigenous communities and their heritage in Canada.Moving from the context of Indigenous nations in North America, part III delves into the economies of heritage from a democratic perspective.The first chapter in this section explores how heritage has been commodified within a neoliberal framework, and the second argues for heritage's role in fostering dialogue among ethnically and racially diverse communities, both within the United States.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.013 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
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".