Bibliographic record
Abstract
Curious about 'what it is to be Canadian'?If so, you are not alone.Grounding this question of identity in history, Bryan Palmer theorises that the turbulence of the 1960s played a significant role in the destabilization of established notions of Canadian identity.Re-evaluating the personalities and movements of the 1960s, Palmer argues that the 60s push towards an equitable society acted as a catalyst for questioning Canada's historic British identity.However, these movements did not provide any long lasting certainty over what Canada's national identity should entail.Palmer's style of writing quietly and gently guides us into his perception of Canada's experience of the 1960s.Layering his work topically, Palmer demonstrates himself to be as much of a cultural as he is a labour historian.Well-supported with 143 pages of notes, he adds a humanistic depth to this work through a series of anecdotes from newspapers, poems, activist manifestos and other lesser known works.Through the effective use of these resources with broader themes and debates, Palmer critically engages the developments of the 1960s.Palmer connects a range of events which emerged in the 1960s through creative and concise language, blending the transformation of this social and political climate.The choice to examine Canada during the 1960s for Palmer lies precisely in its overt activism.The 60s were marred with patterns of hostility demarcating regional, political, cultural, and linguistic disparities.Through a Marxist definition of irony (drawn from Terry Eagleton), Palmer comments that "capitalism is that of a system
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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 | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.058 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.017 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 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".