Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rabillard considers Carmen Aguirre’s The Refugee Hotel in the light of Jacques Derrida’s “On Cosmopolitanism” and his Of Hospitality, focusing on Aguirre’s use of fictional place and presentational space. As Derrida teases out contradictions in the concept and practice of hospitality and the limitations of attempts to respond to the limitless demands of cosmopolitanism, understood as the right of anyone to dwell anywhere in the world, so Aguirre stages the limitations of the refuge Chileans find when they flee to Canada in the wake of Pinochet’s takeover. Much of the play’s power lies in its evocation of trauma and its presentation of the refugees’ stories of suffering, stories based upon the experiences of Aguirre, her family, and opponents of the Pinochet regime with whom she worked. But an important aspect of the play’s political significance emerges via comparison with Derrida. For The Refugee Hotel challenges the spectator to recognize both the difficulty and the necessity of welcoming refuge seekers without imposing boundaries and definitions or requiring them to assimilate. The limitations of the refuge offered are figured in the play’s single set: a shabby hotel in Vancouver; evoked via representation of linguistic barriers; and dramatized in the parochialism of the welcoming social worker, and in the pressure to assimilate experienced by the refugee children. The play intervenes in Canadian political discourse, dispelling myths of national generosity, and represents hospitality based upon the mutual responsiveness of guest and host. Rabillard argues in conclusion that the political challenge of The Refugee Hotel, its requirement that we apprehend the full demand of true borderless hospitality, extends to the cultural space of Canadian theatre, where immigrant authors such as Aguirre must find a place.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.003 |
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".