The Subject of Movement: Defining Citizen Self-Rule as Mobility in an Age of Borders
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The moving body is the soul of democracy, a politics that reveres the freedom of movement. Yet citizen self-rule, the guiding principle of democracy, is conceptualized by many theorists and almost all politicians in terms of a state conferred status recognizing an individuals right to participate in political decision-making. The contrasting tradition of defining citizens with reference to their participation – their literal movement – in the contestation and negotiation of norms, often regardless of any state conferred rights, is missing from contemporary discourse. This paper argues that the more prevalent ‘status’ model unduly privileges speech over movement to the exclusion of those who would become citizens by virtue of their participation in practices (eg, labour, community service, etc) that give rise to what legal theorists term a ‘living law’ of norms and commitments. The paper concludes that it is a politics based on this latter model of the moving citizen, the model of a subject whose movement defines her as a citizen, that is properly called democratic.
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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 | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.071 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.022 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.006 |
| 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".