Nova Scotia and the Rise of the Tourism State: Tourism and the Manufacture of Innocence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mathews and Richter (1991) condemned the paucity of political analyses in Tourism Studies, while Hall (1994) and Meethan (2001) likewise bemoaned the field's related privileging of prescriptivist studies of policy-making at the expense of longitudinal, descriptivist interpretation. Responding to such calls, this presentation critiques the contribution to evolving understanding of real world-governmental-action-in-tourism of the Canadian historian McKay. Investigating practices of cultural selection / cultural production in Nova Scotia, McKay (1994) charted the rise of the tourism state there, and showed (via Gramscian and Foucauldian distillation) how it helped manipulate the symbolic image of the province, re-naturalising it as an 'innocent' and 'artisanal' place. Thereafter, this Melbourne critique provides twelve research propositions to guide the field's unfolding research agendas on the mobilisation of symbolic authority through tourism. These propositions - on the politics of place and identity making - target the way local being and cultural inheritance are regularly but under-suspectingly 'governed' through tourism.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".