Bibliographic record
Abstract
Many contemporary discussions about the nature and meaning of identity or selfhood focus on the place, position, and status of different cultural groups within the geo-political borders of a particular nation-state or "homeland" (Modood and Werbner).This is not too surprising given how the passion of and for identity is, according to Janet McLellan and Anthony Richmond, grounded on the contemporary conditions of quotidian life.Globalization, new communications and transportation technologies, free-trade, post-coloniality, and the break-up of the Soviet Block all operate to destabilize the once taken-for-granted isomorphic connection between one's homeland, culture, and sense of self (Gupta and Ferguson).Despite this, however, the links between culture and homeland continue to strongly influence the question of selfhood (Clayton).Cultural identity in particular, to paraphrase Homi Bhabha, lingers on as stubborn incommensurable chunks of selfhood even in a world increasingly characterized by flows, mixing, and hybridity (Appadurai).Is cultural identity then falling apart or re-stabilizing itself?Is it best described in the language of roots or in the language of routes?(Yon).Mikhail Bakhtin encourages us to consider both.His work underscores how both the notions of roots and routes operate in relation to everyday commonsensical notions of identity; how, that is, cultural identity can be simultaneously fixed and fluid (Murray).Yet, the pushes and pulls of cultural identity may also give rise to a number of attendant ambivalences, uncertainties, and contradictions (N.Harney).They may engender both declarative and interrogative views of identity (Bhabha), they may engender the problematic of identity.The question of the selfhood and how various identity categories are taken up centrally informs this paper.I deal here with the identity-talk of 12 members of an Italian-Canadian book club-aptly named 1 Litterati-in the small northwestern Ontario city of Lakeside.! I ethno-1 Lakeside's social and political sensibility is tied to its historical development as a working-class resource-based economy (Dunk).Lakeside is also host to a professional symphony and theatre group, a strong health sciences centre, a
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".