Revolution in the Age of Identity: North Africa and the Postcolonial Condition
Bibliographic record
Abstract
To understand the meaning and the scope of the “Arab Spring”, one workable methodology is to examine the reality of the unrest in a specific geographical area. Within a context of increasing political and cultural interaction North Africa has managed to maintain separate identities. This article is an attempt to examine why the Arab uprisings fail, or rather never materialize in Algeria and Morocco? This topic becomes fascinating with a view to understand the structural changes from the age of independence to an interdependence that seems to leave undemocratic regimes untouched, while the postcolonial condition becomes a disputed issue. History, economics, and demographics are useful tools in order to examine processes that may otherwise be dumbed down into happy theories of liberation movements. There is nothing much happy in today’s North Africa, be they strategies of resistance or the power structures. In this article I will analyze the specific tension that exists between a power that has been consolidating over the decades and the counterhegemonic spiral that eventually placed Algerians ahead of the “Arab Spring” wave.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".