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Record W1776396635 · doi:10.3138/topia.21.63

Bare Roots: Exploring Botanical Agency in the Personal Garden

2009· article· en· W1776396635 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Renate Sander-Regier

Bibliographic record

VenueTOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographies of human-animal interactions
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAgency (philosophy)Context (archaeology)Sense of agencyAction (physics)Relation (database)Space (punctuation)SociologyEnvironmental ethicsSocial scienceHistoryPsychologySocial psychologyArchaeologyComputer sciencePhilosophy

Abstract

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Non-human agency is an anthropocentrically problematic issue that some brave geographers have discussed with relation to plants in contexts such as orchards, cemeteries and gardens. I strive to shake the idea of agency loose of its deterministic human trappings, and explore plant agency from a more basic, bare-roots sense as something achievable by non-human actors. The context I have chosen for this endeavour is the hybrid space of the personal garden—where botanical agency of presence, action, intent, association and capacity is experienced by gardeners actively involved in the space—as portrayed in contemporary personal gardening literature.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.959
Threshold uncertainty score0.081

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.032
Scholarly communication0.0060.005
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.133
GPT teacher head0.364
Teacher spread0.231 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2009
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