Mapping in, on, towards Aboriginal space: trading routes and an ethics of artistic inquiry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction Unlike Cartesian maps which are largely projections of conceptual territory and the power relations that they imply, these map-works explore a lived experience and an alternative reality, both materially and metaphysically. These maps offer an opportunity to investigate and visually manifest the gap between what is deeply known about a place and what is merely drawn on a common map. (Gellman ‘TerritoReality’ didactic for Exhibition in Red Plains Gallery, University of Regina) The resulting real and imagined geographies, the material, symbolic, and hierarchically organized spaces of colonial occupation along with the processes that produce them, contextualize enclosure, exclusion, domination, disciplinary control. (Soja, 2005: 37) As a settler colony, the historical development of Canada reflects a will to map, and geography continues to influence on public discourse across the arts and sciences. Confederation (1867), which set the terms for the continued expansion of the Canadian nation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, is connected to a technopolitical ability to imagine and map a social space of unprecedented size and complexity. We might say that the possibility of Canada required and refined cartographic representations that were capable of suturing together disparate territories, terrains, and sociopolitical entities into a contiguous grid of regions and provinces, spanning the North American continent and connecting three oceans. How the map of Canada – the ongoing process of mapping various geopolitical interests – is taken up across academic disciplines and by creative practitioners (visual artists, filmmakers, performers, curators and critics) remains central to debates about present and future of Canada. More particularly, as we discuss in this chapter, different maps and mapping differences are vital to discussions of relations among Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. In courtrooms, boardrooms, and classrooms, as well as out on the land the legacy of maps impacts understanding and interpretations of Indigenous sovereignty and self-governance within and across our national borders. As the quote from geographer Edward Soja suggests, colonial geographies continue to ‘contextualize enclosure, exclusion, domination, disciplinary control’ (2005: 37). Whether one approaches the map of Canada through the lens of new economic zones, the imperatives of global warming, or ‘forging a new relationship between Aboriginal peoples and other Canadians’ as the federal government's 2008 ‘Statement of Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools’ puts it, significant changes to geopolitical contexts require renewed interest in the land and discussions of how it is represented.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.074 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| 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".