The enduring settler-colonial emergency: Indian Affairs and contemporary emergency management in Canada
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since the early 2000s, the department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) has formalized and systematized how it produces knowledge about ‘civil unrest’ involving Indigenous peoples. These practices have been undertaken as part of a government-wide all-hazards emergency management framework that consolidates ‘traditional emergency management’ (e.g. natural disasters, accidents) with the domain of national security. Through this framework, INAC monitors rallies, demonstrations, and blockades, alongside floods and forest fires, under the auspices of emergency management. I argue that these practices are continuous with ‘colonial emergency’ – a liberal legal-political mechanism originating in martial law, which enables pre-emptive political and military interventions against anti-colonial movements and Indigenous resurgence. The contemporary emergency management paradigm of national security is a manifestation of the enduring ‘colonial emergency’ for the settler-colonial state.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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