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Record W4391331723 · doi:10.1080/13528165.2023.2272498

Ecological Performance and ‘Settler Creep’

2023· article· en· W4391331723 on OpenAlex
Melanie Kloetzel

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenuePerformance Research · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPosthumanist Ethics and Activism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCreepEcologyGeographyMaterials scienceBiologyComposite material

Abstract

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The penetration of climate change into our individual and collective consciousness(es) has been a slow process. Using Una Chaudhuri’s (1994) initial demand for a new era of ecological theatre (‘“There must be a lot of fish in that lake”: Toward an ecological theater’, Theater 25(1): 23–31) and Carl Lavery’s (2018) follow-up volume that asked ‘what can theatre do ecologically’ as a springboard (Performance and Ecology: What can theatre do? Abingdon and New York, NY: Routledge), Melanie Kloetzel’s contribution to this issue, ‘Ecological Performance and “Settler Creep”: Making space to resist invasion’ explores the intersection of performance research and the ecological and climate crises. Borrowing from Heather Davis-Fisch’s (2017) coining of ‘settler creep’ (in Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer (eds) Performance Studies in Canada, Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, pp. 67–89), Kloetzel argues that attempts to create an ‘ecological performance’ have floundered due to the inability to effectually address the modernity/coloniality narrative that undergirds the increasing devastation of the planet. Kloetzel starts by examining the hegemonic grip of this narrative with the support of Indigenous scholar Vanessa Andreotti (2021), after which she charts two speculative pathways through the theoretical stew of contemporary performance research (‘The task of education as we confront the potential for social and ecological collapse’, Ethics and Education 16(2): 143–58 and ‘Depth education and the possibility of GCE otherwise’, Globalisation, Societies and Education 19(4): 496–509). This charting reveals the slippery invasion of ‘settler creep’ into our efforts, hampering our ability both to reckon with and uproot modernity/coloniality’s ecocidal narratives and to find decolonial and ecologically-grounded counterhegemonic narratives. Yet, by examining tactics forwarded by geographers Sarah de Leeuw and Sarah Hunt (2018 ‘Unsettling decolonizing geographies’, Geography Compass 12(7): 1–14), as well as by touching on the embodied practices developed by Kloetzel and Phil Smith (2021 Covert: A handbook: 30 movement meditations for resisting invasion, Bridport: Triarchy Press), the artist digital residency program created by Vancouver-based Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures collective, and TRAction’s turbulent journey to create the Climate Art Web, Kloetzel shows how efforts to make space for confronting modernity/coloniality’s hegemonic effects may offer a generative method to resist the creep.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.417
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.224
GPT teacher head0.462
Teacher spread0.238 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it