The 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Canada’s War in Afghanistan: The Intersection of Sporting Spectacle and the Politics of Precariousness
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As Canada prepared to host the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, a sporting spectacle whose central ideological purpose historically has been the promotion of peace and international goodwill, its government continued its controversial war in Afghanistan where Canadian Armed Forces had been engaged since 2001 and whose presence there was increasingly becoming mired under allegations of complicity in the torture of Afghan detainees. Drawing on Judith Butler’s post-9/11 work on framing and the differential rendering of some (but not all) lives as both precarious and grievable, we critically examine what came to be the intersection of the 2010 Games and the government of Canada’s attempts to neutralize the detainee-transfer crisis that was set to engulf the country’s political and military leaders. Both the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and Canada’s Olympic Torch resolution would be politically manoeuvred to address this crisis as part of the government’s broader framing strategies associated with its enduring detainee crisis and war in Afghanistan.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.000 | 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 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".