The experience of mobility : an anthropological analysis of tenants' displacements in Montreal.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the experience of mobility through the process of house moving in Montreal. It is a study grounded in an ethnographic fieldwork that took place between September 1997 and July 1999. Data were collected through participant observation, by accompanying people throughout the process of their move, and assisting them in their move. It examines a range of anthropological issues such as the distribution of power in relation to residential groups, the constitution of subjectivity in motion, the relations coming into existence on the move as well as the role of material culture. It also looks at the construction of ageing brought about by mobility. The experience of mobility is situated in its broader context. The political and economic conditions which make it possible are analysed as well as the social categories in the light of which the experience takes on its meanings. As such, the thesis challenges major Western ideological and philosophical preconceptions regarding stability. It demonstrates how stability has progressively been normalised in the Western world against the threat that the moving crisis represents; how, in other words, remaining in place has become a norm of domestic life as well as its condition. The ethnographic evidence recognises that moving in Montreal is often apprehended as a crisis, not to say dreaded. It shows how moving is considered to be a crisis. It also reveals, however, that it is a crisis that is often taken to be worth going through. The thesis thus explores how people use mobility and how they cope with it. In that sense, it acknowledges the role played by objects; those objects with which people move and which are at the heart of the creation and the re-creation of a sense of place. One contribution of this thesis is to emphasises how people in Montreal, tenants in particular, use space and movement across space to construct themselves as subjects. Far from resulting from a lack of attachment to place, moving appears to be understandable as a dwelling practice, not to say rational in the Montreal context. It becomes a means to take advantage of the renting system. At least, it is a attempt to make the best of it.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".