Boundaries on fire, hybridity and the political economy of culture
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Current debates about globalization have generated interest in hybridity, a term which refers to the identities, representations and productions of people who live between cultures that are perceived to be fixed geographically. The complex relationships between producers and consumers of hybrid commodities constitute the political economy of culture. This economy obscures the hidden hegemonies within globalization, and makes authenticity the exchange value of cross-cultural commodities and their producers. Control over the production of hybridity is manipulated by transnational culture industries, in order to defuse the hybrid's transgressive properties and reclaim hybridity as symbol of global homogenization. This thesis examines several hybrid cultural productions and producers, including Deepa Mehta's 1997 film Fire; Star Rise, a 1997 tribute album to the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; and musical groups Asian Dub Foundation and The Fire This Time. These examples illustrate the manipulation of hybridity within the political economy of culture.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 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".