Minor architectures, micro empires: women and the production of domestic space on the nineteenth-century Pacific 'Frontier'
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay looks at three portraits of women as homemakers on the Pacific Northeast following British Columbia's 1873 accession to the Dominion of Canada, when colonial relationships were buttressed by legal and administrative means, and ideas and practices of the home were central to the spread of Victorian moral norms on the Canadian ‘frontier’. Colonial spatial notions of interiority and exteriority, relationships to the site, and object-regimes were negotiated in this intimate microcosm. The work of space-making that ‘frontier’ women presented in minor pictorial and literary genres was in itself a ‘minor architecture’ about finished form, or objecthood, and the perpetual negotiation of contradictory and unstable imperial spatial relationships which required reworking, reproducing, and redefining. These minor architectures' histories on the ‘frontier’ reveal architecture's power to weave hegemonic values into the very fabric of existence, as well as the fundamental interconnectedness of the identity of settler women and their labour.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".