Rethinking resilience:Exploring decolonial possibilities of representing narratives of conflict-affected women in the North and East of Sri Lanka
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper reflects on the interventions presented in my master’s thesis from 2020 which analyses representations of conflict affected women in the North and East of Sri Lanka in post conflict discourse through postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses. A central source in the analysis is a documentary I produced in 2019 titled Women’s Plight: Dreams of a Better Life which presents five women’s narratives of their lives during and post- conflict. This work was produced as a submission to the ‘Tamils of Lanka: A Timeless Heritage’ exhibition which took place in 2019, marking 10 years to the end of the conflict and the atrocities committed by the state at Mullivaikal. The documentary aligned with the exhibition’s central theme of recognising the resilience of the community in the homeland and diaspora through the violence, marginalisation and its resulting impacts. I worked within a team of volunteers, who were part of the Tamil Information Centre in London, to organise the exhibition. The thesis unpacks the reductive ways conflict affected women are represented in the discourse and draws from Sangam literature and historical narratives of gendered spirituality and resistance to trace alternative epistemologies that could be applied to represent these women and their perspectives in more expansive ways. The paper includes reflections from engagement and presentation of these interventions in both academic and non-academic contexts.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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