Place, pipelines and political subjectivities in invisibilized urban peripheries
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Place is often made invisible in infrastructure siting conflicts; this seems particularly the case in the rural–urban fringe and the in-between city. This paper analyses how collectives struggle to give place visibility in debates over large fossil fuel infrastructure projects, in two cases of pipeline opposition. It then focuses on mobilizations in urban peripheries, regarding which there is an enduring assumption of homogeneity in place attachments and in motives for political engagement. Mobilizations in the peripheries of Montreal (Canada) and Boston (USA) metropolitan areas are analysed in the challenges of arriving at a diverse ‘sense of place’. The meanings of the pipeline threat among activists differ in the context of different relations to place in everyday life and in former conflicts, which affect their shared discourses and individual encounters – experiences of colonial urbanism, farmers’ relations with the land, practices of land conservation, as well as relations with the state, grassroots and environmental organizations. Scholarship on the politics of place and the work of Hannah Arendt are used to conceptualize the (trans)formation of political subjectivity when struggling to give visibility to place, and to a diverse sense of place, in the urbanized society.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.062 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".