The institutionalization of diasporic identity: a study of the university of the Fraser Valley's centre for Indo-Canadian studies
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation addresses how a university centre dedicated to the study of diasporic identity represents the constitution of regional, national, and transnational communication networks. The creation and operation of these communicative networks requires individuals to negotiate a myriad of differences, including level of education, socio- and religio-cultural background, and occupation. I investigate the ways in which those involved in the establishment and operation of the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, in Abbotsford, British Columbia negotiated those differences, and highlight the evidence of institutional solidarity, diasporic identity politics, and the local and transnational movement of knowledge and capital that resulted from those negotiations. I argue that the Centre provides an example of diasporic identity politics in practice, as it aims to create spaces for the study of Indo-Canadian experience and history at the university. The Centre's existence and its ability to provide these spaces is constituted by communication networks made up of local and regional institutions. This dissertation's findings are based on a variety of collected and analyzed texts, including; qualitative interviews, the Centre's promotional materials, course syllabi, descriptions of the Centre's pedagogical approach, and participant observation of courses, lectures, and public events offered by the Centre. While a majority of the research took place at the Centre itself, the dissertation research also included fieldwork in India, with Fall 2016 visits to the Centre's partner institutions in India, including UFV India, in Chandigarh, India, and the University of Mumbai. My work interrogates a previously unexplored Canadian diasporic communitive site – the medium-sized, rural university. By moving away from the diasporic city to diasporic experience in the context of a rural community, I provide new ways to think about transnationalism and diasporic communicative practice.
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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 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.072 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 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".