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Record W2623458683

Iceland: Diverging Worlds, Emerging Identity

2017· article· en· W2623458683 on OpenAlexaff
Brandon Jacques Boileau

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPhilippine History and Culture
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIdentity (music)EthnologyGeographyHistoryArtAesthetics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Abstract: The geological divergence of the North American and Eurasian plates creates a geological border known as the mid-Atlantic ridge. The continual diverging forces and intense volcanic activity of the sub-oceanic ridge have given birth to the landmass we know as Iceland. Symbolically, the geographical emergence of Iceland is a direct result of the distancing of both the old and new worlds. Iceland and its people rest at the crossroads of two very different societies, making it hard to share a sense of belonging with either continent, despite the unifying forces of globalization. Iceland’s unique history and geographical isolation have resulted in a weak sense of belonging with either the historically rich European or progressive North American continents, thus fostering a strong ethnic and nationalistic identity. In lieu, Iceland has formed and maintained its own unique identity with help of both continents, becoming a geographic and cultural halfway intersection between both. This strong cultural identity can be best observed at Pingvellir, a lieu de memoire representing the history, struggle, and relentlessness of Iceland’s thirst for an identity of its own. The ensuing discussion outlines this thirst and how it paved the micronation's development of a strong national identity resistant of global cultural hybridization. Resume : La divergence geologique des plaques de l’Amerique de Nord et de l’Eurasie cree une frontiere geologique nommee dorsale medio-atlantique. Les forces qui divergent continuellement et l’activite volcanique intense de la crete sous-atlantique ont donne naissance a la masse continentale qui nous connaissons sous nom de l’Islande. Symboliquement, l’emergence geographique de l’Islande est le resultat direct de la distanciation a la fois de l’ancien et nouveau monde. L’Islande et son peuple reste au carrefour de deux societes tres differentes, ce qui rend difficile un sentiment d’appartenance avec l’un ou l’autre continent, malgre les forces unificatrices de la mondialisation. L’histoire unique de l’Islande et son isolation geographique ont cree un sentiment d’appartenance faible avec le continent europeen, historiquement riche, ainsi qu’avec le continent nord americain, ce qui favorise une identite ethnique et nationaliste forte. En lieu et place, l’Islande a cree et maintenu son identite unique avec l’aide des deux continents, devenant un carrefour geographique et culturel a mi-chemin entre les deux. Cette identite culturelle forte est mieux observee a Pingvellir, un lieu de memoire representant l’histoire et la lutte sans relâche de la soif de l’Islande pour une identite propre a elle-meme. La discussion suivante esquisse cette soif et comment elle a pose les jalons pour le developpement d’une identite nationale forte qui resiste a l’hybridation globale culturelle de cette micronation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.054

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.006
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.320 · 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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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