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Abolitionist Intimacies

2021· dissertation· en· W7007836211 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueQSpace (Queen's University Library) · 2021
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIndigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrisonColonialismState (computer science)IndigenousPraxisFeminismSubject (documents)Racism
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abolitionist Intimacies is a work in three parts that addresses scholarly, creative, and community dimensions of abolitionist thought, organizing, and resistance. 
\nThe first section explores abolitionist theorizing and praxis in Canada through a theoretical lens of prison studies, autoethnography, decolonial studies, Black feminism, and Indigenous knowledges. As both subject and method of the dissertation, I engage ideas of intimacy and their practices through their relationship to state violence at carceral sites including prisons, policing, borders, as well as through purported care institutions such as hospitals and social work. I contrast state policing of intimacy through mechanisms such as the prison visit, strip search, and managing community contact with incarcerated people to the building of intimacy through relationships and organizing with people inside. The history of the prison in Canada and its ongoing relationship to settler-colonialism, anti-Blackness, classism, ableism, homophobia and transphobia, and transmisogyny and sexism are theorized in relationship to the ongoing struggles of prisoners for justice and liberation. 
\nThe second section of the work, Canada is so Polite, is a poetic, creative non-fiction and journalistic exploration of state violence in Canada; activist resistance to criminalization, policing, and deportation; as well as a personal exploration of family histories of colonialism and my own relationship to and location within the settler state that is Canada. In four movements, the book explores sites of advocacy and organizing against confinement and deportation; my personal histories and perspectives as a Black woman and daughter; sites of encounter with settler-colonialism such as statues, military conferences, and social cultures; and activist and abolitionist futures.
\nIn the final section, I explore the personal and communal commitments that work towards building an abolitionist ethic based in collective principle and care.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.811
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it