The Site of Feeling: Black Caribbean Women’s Theories of Gathering on the Ubersoca Cruise ship
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Abstract
This dissertation develops the concept of feeling and feeling with to illuminate how Black Caribbean women experience interconnection through Carnival-related gathering, specifically on the Ubersoca Cruise ship. Drawing on 31 interviews conducted with Black women who attended Ubersoca Cruise and various Caribbean Carnivals, I examine how participants theorize their own practices of gathering as a felt experience. In developing the concept, feeling and feeling with, I argue that the Ubersoca Cruise is a site that participants seek out to experience felt interconnection—with waters, friends, and themselves—and that these experiences shape their understanding of place. Chapters 3 through 5 develop distinct elements of feeling and feeling with. In Chapter 3, I share Black women’s accounts of their relationships to the ship and the waters, relationships not overdetermined by slavery. In Chapter 4, I examine the ideal yet costly conditions that allow participants to experience feeling interconnection with their close friends onboard, a feeling shaped by their prior experiences at Carnival. In Chapter 5, I draw attention to the epistemological dimension of feeling. I analyze participants' theories of joy and madness side-by-side to illuminate the knowledge participants derive from feeling deeply and feeling free at these gatherings. By conceptualizing feeling, interconnection, knowing, and Carnival-related gathering as entangled together, this dissertation makes three key interventions: (1) it radically reconceptualizes our understanding of Black women’s relationship to the ship and the Atlantic Ocean; (2) it centers the feeling of interconnection—with waters and friends—as central to Black women’s Carnival-related gathering on the Ubersoca Cruise; and (3) it identifies this feeling of interconnection as a form of knowledge.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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