The Spectre in the Archive: Truth, Reconciliation, and Indigenous Archival Memory
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cet article place la science archivistique en dialogue avec les tudes autochtones et les thories raciales critiques afin d'explorer deux cas de cour lis aux documents d'archives et la Commission de vrit et rconciliation au Canada.Il examine sur quelle base la cour pouvait conclure que certains documents devaient tre produits, d'autres conservs de faon temporaire, et d'autres encore, dtruits.En tenant compte des tudes rcentes qui prconisent un changement de la rhtorique au sujet des droits humains et de la diversit dans le discours archivistique, je soutiens que la disparition discursive ou la spectralisation des peuples autochtones joue un rle crucial dans le processus de dpossession de leurs terres, de leurs ressources et de leur hritage culturel.En prenant note des tensions qui existent entre le dsir d'tre inscrit dans la mmoire et l'envie d'tre oubli, j'affirme que l'incorporation de documents crs par des peuples autochtones ou leur sujet dans les archives nationales du colonisateur demeure cruciale la constitution de la mmoire historique archivistique de ce dernier (au dtriment d'une mmoire historique archivistique autochtone), qui transforme la honte et la culpabilit nationales canadiennes en gloire et honneur nationaux.En conceptualisant le centre d'archives national canadien comme un lieu hant par la crainte et le dsir, et par la culpabilit et le triomphe nationaux, je montre comment les cas de cour de la Commission de vrit et rconciliation rvlent ou mettent en vidence les histoires de violence coloniale.ABSTRACT This article places archival science, Indigenous studies, and critical theories on race and colonialism in dialogue so as to explore two court cases related to records and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada.It questions on what basis the courts would rule that some records were to be produced, others temporarily preserved, and yet others destroyed.Considering recent scholarship calling for a shift from a human rights and diversity rhetoric in the archival conversation, I argue that the discursive disappearance or spectralization of Indigenous people plays a crucial role in dispossessing them of their lands, resources, and cultural heritage.Noting the tensions between a desire to be remembered and a longing for oblivion, I argue that the incorporation of records by or about Indigenous people into the national settler archival repository is crucial for the constitution of a settler historical archival memory (at the expense of an Indigenous one) that transforms Canadian national shame and guilt into national glory and honour.Conceptualizing the Canadian national archive as a haunted site of fear and desire, national guilt and national triumph, I
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it