The Camp and the Encampment: Reflections on Palestine Futures from the University of Toronto Student Encampment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The two-month encampment at the University of Toronto struggled to reach a deal with the university's administration. Despite its clear demands, based on the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS), confusion abounded about the goals of the encampment and the tactics required for reaching them. The author compares the role of student encampments of 2024 to that of the Palestinian refugee camp at the dawn of the Palestinian revolution. The author reflects on the meaning of Palestinian liberation and modes of resistance to reach it, suggesting that it requires attending to the crises of climate change and capitalism to deliver a Palestinian political vision for desirable futures that guarantee the conditions for the flourishing of all humans on that land.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.063 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.007 | 0.014 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".