Bibliographic record
Abstract
Radical Neoliberalism in British Columbia: Remaking Rural Geographies
 
 Abstract Abstract. This paper argues that rural regions of British Columbia, Canada, are currently the subject of a radical political-economic experiment dismantling traditional Fordist and Keynesian approaches to economic development and replacing them with neoliberal strategies. This experiment targets both corporate resource economies and local or community-based economies. The paper argues that current reforms aim to enhance flexibility in major resource sectors (particularly in forestry) by “liberating” corporate actors from traditional obligations to environment, labour, and communities. This strategy is buttressed by concurrent reforms to community development policies to promote “entrepreneurial” forms of development that (it is assumed) can be achieved independently of the dominant resource economy. Using field research from several case communities in coastal British Columbia, the paper argues that these developments are having a strong impact on traditional economic structures and practices, as neoliberal reforms seek to disaggregate corporate and community-level economies.
 Résumé. Cet article propose que les régions rurales de la Colombie Britannique, sont présentement le sujet d’une expérience politique radicale qui comprend le démantèlement des institutions et stratégies de développement économique fordistes et keynésiennes traditionnelles et leur remplacement par des approches néolibérales. Cette expérience cible les économies industrielles (basées sur les ressources naturels) comme les économies locales des communautés rurales. Cet article propose que la stratégie néolibérale naissante vise d’abord à libérer les grandes entreprises impliquées dans l’extraction de ressources naturelles de leurs obligations traditionnelles envers l’environnement, la main-d’oeuvre, et les communautés rurales. Cette stratégie est étayée par des réformes simultanées des politiques de développement communautaires qui favorisent l’entrepreneurial, en indépendance supposée de l’économie existante dominés par les ressources naturelles. Fondé sur une recherche de terrain dans plusieurs communautés côtières en Colombie Britannique, cet article propose que l’expérience néolibérale a un effet important sur les structures et les pratiques économiques traditionnelles, en ce qu’elle tente de désagréger les économies industrielles et communautaires dans les régions rurales de la province.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".