Capital Accumulation and Metabolic Rifts: Climate Change and Indigenous Resistance in the Canadian Arctic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Climate change is increasingly impacting populations globally, influencing the severity of storms, floods, droughts and related consequences. Using Marxist and environmental sociological theory, this thesis critically examines the legacy of capitalism and colonialism in relation to climate change, with particular attention focused on the role of water in all three. Bringing these strands together is a case study of climate change and Inuit responsiveness in the Canadian Arctic. In this thesis I argue that climate change is not just a problem of capitalism, but of ontology, specifically the understanding of the human-environment relation in terms of subjects and objects. Against this separating ontology, I highlight the inter-connection of multiple threads of causality and interdependency. The effects of capitalism cannot be separated from the effects of colonialism, and while indigenous people have been subjected to both, they also continue to adhere to alternative ontologies that may offer guidance to a way forward. I explore the problem of capitalist ontology and possible alternatives through an analysis of the integral role of water in human life. While water is only one element in the environment that could be focused on, consideration of its centrality to the development of capitalism and colonialism serves as an important reminder for us of our continuing dependence on nature. We can also see the centrality of water in the effects of climate change, such as floods, droughts and storms. In this thesis, I explore the ramifications of climate change in the Arctic as an important case study for identifying possible future responses to this ecological crisis. The Arctic is one area in which the effects of climate change are already being experienced in a profound way. Thus, looking at responses to climate change in the Arctic can highlight possibilities that might be pursued elsewhere as its effects mount. Additionally, as the region remains predominantly indigenous, it is also a site in which indigenous ontologies play a part in the development of viable responses to the ecological crisis.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".