From Object of Poverty to National Treasure: The Ambiguous Place of Catholic Convents in Quebec and the Rhetoric of Heritage
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Abstract
Convents and Catholic religious institutions undeniably constitute an important component of Quebec's religious heritage. Yet, popular and official interest in and concern over the preservation of these buildings seems to have grown exponentially in the last decade. Arguments over the demolition and reuse of properties of religious communities of women reveal the wide-ranging attitudes of concerned citizens, members of sisterhoods and the clergy, heritage advocates, and government. The ways religious heritage has been defined and packaged (for tourist consumption, to bolster national narratives) reflect not only gender asymmetries within the attribution and appreciation of religious heritage but also ambivalence toward the role of the Church in Quebec history. Resume Les couvents et autres etablissements religieux catholiques constituent indeniablement une composante importante du patrimoine religieux du Quebec. Au cours de la derniere decennie, les interets populaires et officiels a preserver ces bâtiments et les preoccupations a cet egard ont augmente de facon exponentielle. Les discussions sur la demolition ou l'attribution de nouvelles vocations aux edifices des communautes religieuses de femmes revelent la grande diversite des attitudes des citoyens, des membres de communautes de femmes et du clerge, des defenseurs du patrimoine ainsi que du gouvernement. La facon dont le patrimoine religieux a ete defini et presente (pour consommation touristique, pour justifier le discours nationaliste) reflete non seulement des asymetries en fonction de l'appartenance a un sexe dans l'attribution et l'appreciation de ce patrimoine, mais aussi une ambivalence envers le role joue par l'Eglise dans l'histoire du Quebec.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.016 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".