The Citizen Insider/Outsider: Governmentality, Citizenship and Quebec's Reasonable Accommodation Commission
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Citizenship is often described substantively and formally as delineating between insiders and outsiders. Yet the neatness of these boundaries of inclusion and exclusion has been uniquely and heavily tested by recent events in the Canadian province of Quebec. In the spring of 2006, Quebec's media began to report on a number of curious themes, all of which reinforced a growing consensus that cracks were appearing in Canada's multicultural mosaic. Invective language referenced ethnic enclaves, the discourse of tolerance resurfaced with full force, and a powerful Othering discourse, engaging with notions of race and gender, collided with conceptions of religion, culture, and secularism. Perhaps most critically, a discourse on reasonable accommodation - on the extent to which the dominant society in Quebec should accommodate designated 'others' - dominated common parlance while discussions of systemic inequality faded into the background. By February 2007, months of controversy culminated in the establishment of The Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences.By examining media reports, commission submissions, and the commissions final report, this paper explores the idea of the citizen that straddles lines of inclusion and exclusion - the citizen insider/outsider. In addition to unpacking the particular profile of this citizen, this paper explores how a governmentality approach to citizenship may deepen our understandings of what we require from different constituencies of citizens, and how citizen insider/outsiders are cultivated and conducted to act within particular regimes of possibility.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.029 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".