“It’s always the same routine,” but…: Workers’ modes of dwelling on the Romaine River hydroelectric megaproject (North Shore, Quebec, Canada)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article focuses on the everyday geographical experience of workers at the Romaine hydroelectric project on the North Shore (Quebec) to better understand ways of dwelling in workcamps and worksites of northern resource development megaprojects. Using a qualitative approach based on in-depth interviews with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous workers, regional and extra-regional, we study four interdependent components of ways of dwelling on the remote worksite and its camps: work, mobility, living together, habitat. The transversal reading of the workers’ diverse experiences–positive or otherwise–leads to an original typology of modes of dwelling that intersects their profile and their sense of place: the shelter (or home), the workshop, the gilded prison, the penitentiary, the stopover. Our analysis reveals that beyond a neoliberal model of resource development based on pragmatism and productivity, that imposes a rigid structure and firmly established routines on the workers, a picture emerges of differing relations with the worksite and with colleagues of various geographical and cultural origins.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.010 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".