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The Contested Restructuring Qua Remapping of British Columbia's Forest Economy: Reflections on the 'Crossroads' and 'War in the Woods' metaphors/La Restructuration Contestee et Un Re-Dessin De L'economie Forestiere De la Columbia-Britannique: Une Reflexion Sur Les Metaphors «Carrefours» et «Guerre Dans Les Bois»

2004· article· fr· W240973106 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Roger Hayter

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Regional Science · 2004
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicGlobal trade, sustainability, and social impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMetaphorRestructuringInterpretation (philosophy)ScrutinyHumanitiesEconomyPolitical scienceSociologyPhilosophyEconomicsLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abstract Metaphors are widely used to provoke and (re-)direct debate and are an important part of discourses on regional development in academic and popular literatures. Metaphors, however, do not speak for themselves and their interpretation deserves greater scrutiny. A case in point is provided by the BC forest economy that for over two decades has been characterized by 'crossroads' and 'war in the woods' metaphors. The former intimates a restructuring from a mass production, cost-minimizing commodity system to a more flexible, value maximizing and product-differentiated system while the latter captures clashes among newly emergent neo-liberal, environmental and aboriginal values and between these values and those in place for a remapping of forest rights and use. This paper comparatively reflects on the crossroads and war in the woods metaphors. In broad terms, the historical basis of the crossroads metaphor and the geographic basis of the war in the woods metaphor is identified while simultaneously emphasizing that the forces underlying the two metaphors are causally interconnected. The discussion helps explain the durability of the metaphors, or why crossing the crossroads to a more desirable forest economy that is based on peace in the woods has proven so difficult. Resume Les metaphores sont abondamment utilisees afin de provoquer et (re-)diriger le debat et sont une partie importante des discours sur le developpement regional dans les litteratures academique et populaire. Les metaphores, par contre, ne parlent pas d'elles-memes et leur interpretation merite un plus profond examen. Un cas particulier est fourni par l'economie forestiere de la Colombie-Britannique (C-B) qui pour plus de deux decennies a ete caracterisee par les metapbores de > et de >. La premiere laisse entendre une restructuration d'un systeme de production de masse, de produits a couts minimises, a un systeme de produit differencie plus flexible maximisant la valeur alors que la seconde fait etat d'affrontements parmi de nouvelles valeurs neo-liberales, environnementales et aborigenes et entre ces valeurs et celles en place pour un re-dessin des droits et usages de la foret. Cet article reflechit comparativement sur les metaphores de carrefours et de guerre dans les bois. L'idee que les metaphores de carrefours et de guerre dans les bois dans le contexte de leconomie forestiere de la C-B decrivent une realite endurante et paradigmatique, au lieu d'un etat transitoire, est le point de depart de cet article. Une tache cle est d'expliquer la durabilite de ces metaphores, ou pourquoi croiser les carrefours vers une economie forestiere plus durable qui est fondee sur la paix dans les bois a prouve etre si difficile. Dans ce sens, on met l'emphase sur la base historique de la metaphore des carrefours et la base geographique de la metaphore de la guerre des bois et le fait que les forces sous ces deux metaphores sont interconnectees par des liens de causalite. Cet argument debute par une sagesse courante qui insiste sur le pouvoir de l'histoire conceptualise sous la forme d'une avenue negative de dependances generees par le regime precedent (Fordiste) qui debuta avec la loi sur les forets de 1947 qui privilegia une industrialisation de grande echelle des forets de la C-B. Dans cette perspective d' >, de grosses corporations integrees qui ont domine des baux forestiers a long terme depuis la periode fordiste en support a une culture d'exportation de produits ont resiste avec succes aux tentatives de reforme de la foresterie et de re-dessin des droits forestiers face a des utilisations non industrielles et des petites compagnies. En ce sens, les metaphores de carrefours et de guerre dans les bois definissent une relation de cause a effet. En particulier, ce point de vue argumente que la domination corporative continue a prevenir le croisement des carrefours et a mene a des disputes sous-jacentes a la guerre dans les bois. …

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.008
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.203
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0080.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.036
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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