Quebec Transnationalisms: Interview with Micheline Labelle and Rachad Antonius
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On January 19, Claire Roberge and Jenny Burman interviewed Prof. Micheline Labelle and Prof. Rachad Antonius, two influential Quebec scholars based at Université du Québec à Montreal. Labelle and Antonius were invited to discuss their own research in the areas of transnationalism, citizenship and ethnicity in Quebec, racialization of « ethnocultural communities » and mass media discourses. They also discussed historical and current examples of complementary academic research in Quebec that mobilizes the conceptual framework of transnationalism. The interview transcript below begins with the issue of the critical relevance of diaspora and transnationalism in Quebec scholarship. It proceeds to address mainstream media coverage of Arab and Muslim communities in Québécois and Canadian mainstream press; multiculturalism and interculturalism; transnational social movements and activism; the role of quantitative methodologies in social sciences research on transnationalism; and the relationship between collective memory, state recognition or reparation and diasporic communities.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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".