Imagining the city of festivals: festivalization and urban space in Montréal
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Abstract
This thesis explores the concept of festivalization as it applies to the situation in Montréal, with particular attention to the domain of everyday life. As cities around the world find themselves pressed to respond to economic troubles by developing continuous events, festivals, and other cultural tourism attractions, scholarly examinations have begun to address this phenomenon as "festivalization." However, many studies tend to view contemporary urban festivals as mostly over commercialized, spectacular, and inauthentic, and by extension festivalization as an erosion of a pre-existing everyday life. In response, I argue for the importance of understanding the ways in which festivals participate in and continually construct everyday urban life, constituting an everyday dimension of festivalization. Examining the development of Montréal's festival landscape, particularly official administrative and policy-based articulations of its urban imaginary as the "City of Festivals," demonstrates the thoroughgoing influence of festivals upon the development of Montréal as a material and immaterial construct. Meanwhile, theplacement of festival advertising and materials such as programs and posters, festivals'use of everyday vocabularies of routine movement around the city, and the simultaneous demarcation and destabilization of festival territory through banners, signs, and digital technologies trouble the notion of festivals as separate from or corrosive of everyday life. In Montréal, festivalization involves an oscillation between the imaginary of a City of Festivals and an enduring hum of the festival fact in the city's circulatory flows, a movement through which festivals are implicated in local conditions and terrains of negotiation. Festivalization, I suggest, might be best understood in Montréal's case as the fact of ongoing change, imbrication, mediation, and modulation between the festival and the city such that, rather than one displacing or eroding the other, both are changed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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 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".