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Record W4406930831 · doi:10.1080/10455752.2024.2448671

The Datafication of Environmental Injustice

2025· article· en· W4406930831 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Olivia Orosco, Megan Ybarra

Bibliographic record

VenueCapitalism Nature Socialism · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEnvironmental Justice and Health Disparities
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersU.S. Army Corps of EngineersUniversity of WashingtonYork UniversityYale University
KeywordsInjusticePolitical scienceEnvironmental ethicsPhilosophyLaw

Abstract

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This paper discusses the contradictory effects of geography and environmental justice research on state administrative processes. Drawing on the siting of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on the Tideflats of Tacoma Washington, we argue that research that fails to consider the limitations of administrative violence becomes complicit in it. Through datafication, scientific research has repeatedly documented the harms of industrial development while taking the violence that made the Tideflats as a given. The Puyallup Tribe and environmental organizations’ lawsuit reveal the complicity of science in understanding landscape through a narrow political lens, ignoring the context of settler colonialism and the settler state’s responsibility to Indigenous nations. In this way, academic researchers facilitate administrative violence by participating in drawn out regulatory and legal processes while the environmental injustice in question continues.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.056
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.144
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.056
Threshold uncertainty score0.298

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0560.144
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0070.011
Science and technology studies0.0120.045
Scholarly communication0.0150.018
Open science0.0030.020
Research integrity0.0030.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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 head0.006
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.309 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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