Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter presents the concept of “fringe natures” as an alternative to settler colonial land/water imaginaries. It is anchored in the story of Semá:th X_ó:tsa, the Sto:lo name for a water body of great seasonal variation, in the Fraser Valley of BC, Canada. While a century of colonial rule transformed it into an ostensibly controlled agricultural prairie, catastrophic flooding in November 2021 brought the return of Semá:th X_ó:tsa in its lake form. The first section of this chapter describes these transformations and argues for an understanding of settler colonialism as itself a mode of water governance. The second section outlines an anticolonial, feminist-queer-trans theoretical framework that can offer an alternative land/water imaginary. This begins with a hydrofeminist understanding of bodies of water as porous and changeable, then augments this with queer trans ecological theories that propose water bodies as curious about boundaries, rather than rigidly opposed to them. Through this feminist-queer-trans imaginary, the chapter proposes an understanding of water bodies like Semá:th X_ó:tsa as “fringe natures.” In a time of increasing climate instability, “fringe natures” are figured as part of an expanded littoral zone, where anticolonial, feminist, and queer-trans modes of watery being might flourish.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.018 | 0.004 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".