Bifurcation of a Rural-Urban Regional Partnership: A Study of Hidden Dynamics
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Abstract
Region-based solutions present a promising avenue to addressing contemporary challenges facing municipalities. But regional formations require the messy reworking of networks of power among multiple stakeholders, often leading to power struggles. Challenges can be compounded when a rural-urban dimension is added to such an undertaking. This study examined the hidden power dynamics of a case involving 18 rural and urban municipalities in the Calgary region of Alberta called the Calgary Regional Partnership (CRP). In 2005 these municipalities voluntarily embarked on a major city-region initiative involving land-use planning and water sharing. However, by 2009 four rural municipalities had left the CRP, bifurcating the partnership along rural and urban lines. The dynamics of this case were traced through time and viewed through the lens of Foucault’s concepts of discourse and mechanisms of exclusion as well as Hajer’s concepts of metaphors, story-lines and discourse coalitions. The study demonstrates how mechanisms of exclusion led to the creation of dominant discourses, the formation of coalitions around counter-discourses, and the eventual disintegration of the rural-urban dimension of the partnership. Keywords: water, regionalism, Foucault, Hajer, discourse, power --------------------------------------------------- Resume Les solutions par region sont un moyen prometteur pour faire face aux defis contemporains des municipalites. Cependant, les formations regionales requierent le remaniement confus des reseaux de pouvoirs parmi de multiples parties prenantes, menant souvent a des luttes de pouvoir. Des defis peuvent etre amplifies lorsqu'une dimension rurale-urbaine est ajoutee a une telle entreprise. Cette etude examine les dynamiques de pouvoir cachees d'un cas impliquant 18 municipalites rurales et urbaines dans la region de Calgary, en Alberta, appelee Calgary Region Partnership (CRP) ou Region du Partenariat de Calgary. En 2005, ces municipalites volontaires se sont embarquees dans une initiative majeure municipalo-regionale impliquant la planification territoriale et le partage des eaux. Cependant, avant 2009, quatre municipalites rurales avaient deja quitte le CRP, separant les partenariats entre les lignes rurales et urbaines. Les dynamiques de ce cas ont ete tracees a travers le temps et considerees sous l'angle des concepts du discours et des mecanismes d'exclusion de Foucault ainsi que les concepts de metaphores, de scenarios et de coalitions discursives de Hajer. L'etude montre dans quelle mesure les mecanismes menent a la creation de discours dominants, a la formation de coalition autour de contre-courants, et a l'eventuelle desintegration d'une dimension rurale-urbaine d'un partenariat.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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