Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis is an attempt to conceptualise nation and national identity in the context of Quebec, Canada. Earlier works by Handler (1988) and Bergheim (1997) compose an important part of the background of this thesis, which treats critically the ways national identity and ethnic identity in general, and national identity in Quebec especially, have been depicted, taking the prevailing anthropological theories on the subjects as its starting point. While acknowledging culture's discursive nature, seeing nation and national identity constituted in part by narratives, this thesis argues that nation in Quebec is also in part material. Rather than seeing nation as something that is exclusively a product of narratives, and discourses, focus is directed towards the implicit, non-discursive, and embodied aspects of culture, as this thesis propose that nation; national identity, is in the context of Quebec not solely a state of mind but also a state of body. \n\nCompared to the works of Bergheim and Handler, this thesis' perspective, i.e. the way it employs a certain concept of culture in a Quebecois context, implies to a certain degree an attempt to depoliticise the concept of culture in the context of the nation or ethnic group. This comes about, as the focus empirically is in part directed to practices that are at once embodied and objects of discourse, material and conceptual, like greetings, general style, or comportment. Moreover, methodologically, because of the concept of culture employed, due consideration is granted informants' actions and utterances- utterances not explicitly self-representative. Accordingly, statements explicitly self-representative are treated as being fundamentally different, being of an other logic type than actions and utterances of the former type. Special attention is given to language. "Quebecois", the type of French spoken in Quebec, of which my informants' way of speaking- "joual"- represents a local, Montréalais version, plays an all-important role in Quebecois nationalism. This is so, this thesis suggests, because Quebecois is among "the stuff" "Quebecois culture" is made of as nationalist rhetoric has it, and is simultaneously to my informants The medium of expression (-and impression); indispensable in all walks of life.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".