Right and Resistance: Norms, Interests and Indigenous Direct Action in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Direct mobilization of indigenous peoples, involving protests, blockades and occupations, plays a prominent role in Canadian political life, but has to date been subject to limited explanatory social science. This article examines two high-profile flashpoint events, both involving sustained physical occupations of disputed territory by indigenous peoples, in light of the theoretical debate between instrumental and normative explanations for ethnonational group mobilization. The behaviour of indigenous protesters does not suggest a material or political cost–benefit calculus—as instrumentalism predicts—but rather an ongoing, dynamic evaluation of the legitimacy and righteousness of contentious action. This ‘calculus of right’ reflects the Weberian notion of value rationality—political action that is selected for its intrinsic rather than instrumental value to participants. The concept of ‘calculus of right’ is proposed for future scrutiny in studies of nationalist mobilization.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it