The Cast[e]ing of Heroic Landscapes of Power: Constructing Canada's Pantheon on Parliament Hill
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Abstract
This paper explores Canada's strategy of nurturing a collective memory and social cohesion by the construction of a memorial-complex in the evolving capitol-capital complex. It called for the representation of national narratives in monumental forms, the construction and consecration of a symbolic topography, and the performance of identity through commemorative activities. It is argued here that the ever-expanding pantheon of national heroes on Parliament Hill is intended to materialize the abstract ideas of the nationalizing-state as they evolved through the trajectory of dependent-colony, imperial-nation, state-nation, and consensual community. That is, the cultivation of a collective memory grounded in a mythic past, reified in the present, and projected into the future. The question is posed whether such strategies are sensitive to Canada's role in a globalizing world. Resume Cet article se penche sur la strategie de construction d'un complexe commemoratif au sein d'un ensemble capitole-capitale en evolution, qu'a utilisee le Canada pour alimenter la memoire collective et favoriser la cohesion sociale. Cette strategie reposait sur la representation de recits nationaux sous forme de monuments, la construction et la consecration d'une topographie symbolique et la mise en scene de l'identite par des activites commemoratives. Les auteurs considerent que le pantheon toujours grandissant de heros nationaux sur la colline du Parlement a pour fin de materialiser les idees abstraites d'Etat nationalisâtes, qui ont evolue au fil des ans suivant la trajectoire menant de colonie dependante a nation imperiale, puis a nation-Etat et collectivite consensuelle. Il s'agit de la culture d'une memoire collective ancree sur un passe mythique, reifiee dans le present et projetee dans l'avenir. La question est maintenant de savoir si de telles strategies prennent en compte le role du Canada dans un contexte de mondialisation.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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.
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