The Road to Here? Placing Community within Western Canada’s Resource Landscape
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Abstract
Abstract | The western-Canadian landscape has been deeply shaped by its intimate economic, cultural, and social ties to resource extraction. In this short essay we use the photography of Canadian photographer Eamon Mac Mahon to explore how the West’s shifting resource landscape has reconfigured relationships between community and place. Contrasting nostalgic and idealized visions of remote place-based resource communities with scenes of globally linked infrastructure networks, Mac Mahon’s photographs highlight tensions between shifting economies and ideas of community. Read as palimpsests of place, we argue that, when considered together, Mac Mahon’s photographs offer an important ambivalence, unsettling straightforward readings of boom and bust. In a context of continual upheaval and change, we read Mac Mahon’s photographs as signposts on the road to emergent constellations of place and community in the Canadian West.Résumé | Le paysage de l’ouest canadien a été grandement façonné au niveau économique, culturel et social par son rapport à l’extraction des ressources. Dans ce court essai, l’œuvre photographique du photographe canadien Eamon Mac Mahon est employé afin d’explorer la façon dont les changements dans le bassin de ressources de l’ouest ont reconfiguré les relations entre les communautés et leur environnement. Les images de Mac Mahon soulignent la tension entre l’économie changeante et le concept de communauté en comparant les pensées nostalgiques et idéalisées des communautés éloignées, expliquées par l’extraction de ressources, avec les réseaux d’infrastructures mondiaux. Lu comme palimpsestes de lieux, nous estimons que l’ensemble des photographies de Mac Mahon suggère une ambivalence importante, perturbant les interprétations traditionnelles d’expansion et de récession. Dans un contexte de bouleversement et de changement continu, nous interprétons les photographies de Mac Mahon comme témoin du changement dans les relations entre les communautés de l’ouest canadien et leur environnement.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.001 |
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".