“What Is Still to Be Sustained?”: Performing Climate Justice through Staging Transnational Sustainability from Canada to the Philippines
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Abstract
As a collective of diasporic Filipino-Canadian community members, Filipino theatre artists, and cultural workers located in the unceded territories and ancestral lands of Turtle Island and in our original homeland the Philippines, we explored staging disaster stories to conceptualize sustainability in the aftermath of disaster. Through an Indigenization and transformation of the Christmas nativity as virtual performance, Sirang Theatre Ensemble reimagined the folk theatre form Pastores as a transnational project to articulate climate justice after Super Typhoon Yolanda and Super Typhoon Odette. In this article, we orbit our discussion of sustainability by answering questions around Philippine-Canadian transnational theatre collaboration and decolonization of foreign aid. To foreground a discourse of sustainability, we looked at Waray collectivist epistemology and critical analysis of the role of translation in reviving intangible cultural heritage. The online show Adoración de los Pastores: Transnational Solidarity for Climate Justice in the Performance of Waray Pastores conceptualizes transnational theatre creation as a performance of sustainability. Inserted in between scenes and after the performance of Adoración de los Pastores were curated testimonies, commentaries, and a forum participated in by diasporic Filipino Canadians, Filipino theatre artists, and Canadian-based theatre artists, climate justice advocates, a social scientist, a priest, and students, as well as a recorded video of the former Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines on the impact of Super Typhoon Odette on local community members in Leyte Province. Staging disaster stories by local artists who directly experience the brunt of climate crises and the mobilization of diasporic transnational collaboration expands the practice of sustainable disaster response and recovery beyond the international foreign aid assistance model and paradigm.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 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".