Growing, Cooking, Eating, Shitting Off-grid Organic Food
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Though research on back-to-the-landers, smallholders, organic farmers, community gardeners and eco-villagers is copious, extremely little knowledge exists on off-grid living. “Off-grid” refers to a home or community disconnected from regional electricity and natural gas infrastructures. Off-gridder dwellers not only generate power and heat but in general also practice relative self-sufficiency when it comes to food production. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted in Canada, this paper examines the practices of growing, cooking, eating and disposing of off-grid organic food. Off-gridders' practices present a counter-hegemonic idea of convenience which emphasizes the importance of food that is local, self-produced, sustainably-cooked and sustainably disposed of. We argue that off-gridders engage in acts of “deconcession,” that is, practices that respatialize and reconfigure food-based assemblages of materials, institutions, practices, representations and experiences by way of reduced reliance on the dominant system of distant food supply.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".