When monuments fall: anticolonial disruptions and decolonial urban practices (2022) Plenary Commentary
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this commentary on Laura Pulido’s plenary, “Cultural Memory, White Innocence, and United States Territory”, we reflect on the significance of colonial monuments and their toppling in the Canadian context. Thinking through the 2022 toppling of the John “Gassy Jack” Deighton monument, we consider how this act disrupts the settler colonial city and spatial and ideological manifestations of cultural memory. Reading settler texts on Deighton’s “founding” of the Gastown neighborhood through a feminist and anticolonial lens, we insist that the monument erased gendered histories of Indigenous genocide and upheld a particular cultural memory of white settler innocence. Engaging with Squamish cultural memory and the poetry of Toyts-ten-aat Cease Wyss, we consider what it would mean to center decolonial spatial practices and Squamish geographies. Lastly, we explore the complicated politics surrounding the toppling of the Gassy Jack statue, torn down without Squamish consultation, revealing distinctions between anticolonial and decolonial spatial practices.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.010 | 0.011 |
| 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".