From Canadian Dragons to Pristine Páramos: Visual Discourses in the Campaign to Defend Ecuadorian Páramos from Gold Extraction
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Abstract
Research Article| October 01 2019 From Canadian Dragons to Pristine Páramos: Visual Discourses in the Campaign to Defend Ecuadorian Páramos from Gold Extraction Teresa A. Velásquez Teresa A. Velásquez California State University, San Bernardino Teresa A. Velásquez—is an associate professor of anthropology at California State University, San Bernardino. Her ongoing research in Ecuador examines water, science, law, and identity politics in neoextractive mining conflicts. Recent publications appear in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and Latin American Perspectives. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2019) 1 (4): 98–104. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.140009 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Teresa A. Velásquez; From Canadian Dragons to Pristine Páramos: Visual Discourses in the Campaign to Defend Ecuadorian Páramos from Gold Extraction. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 October 2019; 1 (4): 98–104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2019.140009 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search In this essay, I examine the visual iconography produced by three different but overlapping anti-mining collectivities. The images and symbols produced between 2008 and 2018 comprise a visual discourse that challenges some aspect of mining activity in the county of Cuenca, Ecuador. A term originally developed by Deborah Poole, visual discourses are concerned with intersections of representation, power, and knowledge, which “constitute means of intervening in the world”—that is, they orient toward specific ways of viewing and acting in the world.1 In Ecuador, visual discourses are artifacts and agents in assembling collectivities against various forms of dispossession. A raised fist and Canadian dragon, the Andean chakana, and the image of pristine páramos offer an opening to analyze the composition of the heterogeneous collectivities, their political discourses, and actions.2 They are simultaneously cultural objects produced by activists and an actor that helped constitute collective action related to gold... You do not currently have access to this content.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 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".