The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History
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Abstract
How can we get beyond the present socio-cultural versus national-political impasse in Canadian history writing? By a historical practice of re/connaissance, which begins not with the essentialist project of ‘rethinking Canada,’ but rather with the more modest goal of mapping the Canadian state as a project of liberal rule in northern North America. Those who undertake this re/connaissance of the complex moment of liberal hegemony called Canada will have much to learn from the national-political and socio-cultural historians who have come before them. But they will also be doing (and some are already doing) something radically new -because the reconceived category ‘Canada’ in their work denotes not an untheorized context or an unanalyzable essence, but that socio-cultural project through which liberal order became the national-political ‘commonsense’ in northern North America. Abstract: Comment nous sortir de ľimpasse actuel du debat socio-culturel par opposition a national-politique dans les travaux qui s’ecrivent sur ľhistoire canadienne? Par une pratique historique de re/connaissanee, qui debute non pas par le projet essentialiste qui consiste a «repenser le Canada», mais plutot par le but plus modeste de representer ľEtat canadien comme un projet de regne liberal dans la partie septentrionale de ľAmerique du Nord. Les individus qui entreprendront cette re-con naissance ďun moment complexe de ľhegemonie liberale qui s’appelle le Canada auront beaucoup a apprendre des historiens nationaux-politiques et socio-culturels qui les ont precedes. Mais de plus, ils s’engageront (et certains le font deja) dans une voie radicalement nouvelle – parce que la categorie «le Canada» repensee dans leurs travaux denote, non pas un contexte depourvu de theorie ou une entite essentielle impossible a analyser, mais ce meme projet socio-culturel grâce auquel ľordre liberal est devenu le «bon sens» national-politique dans la partie septentrionale de ľAmerique du Nord.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.020 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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.
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".