'Shell is Proud to Present… The Spirit Sings’: Museum Sponsorship and Public Relations in Oil Country
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article re-examines the renowned Canadian exhibition, The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples (1988) through a lens of corporate, national, and institutional interests. The author positions The Spirit Sings as a productive historical case study for contemporary questions of decolonization and divestment in museums. Using archival and interview findings from her doctoral research, the author highlights the sponsorship and public relations elements of the exhibition, which she argues have been missing from past analyses. Ultimately, the author uses this case study to question the relevance of current debates over oil sponsorship for museums that operate within extractive economies. The article concludes by calling for further critical research around the organizational processes of museums and their participation in corporate legitimation.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 it