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Record W4407100544 · doi:10.4324/9781003343240-17

Proximity, distance, and difference

2025· book-chapter· en· W4407100544 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Geraldine Pratt

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicWork-Family Balance Challenges
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeography

Abstract

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This chapter focusses on my research extending back to the early 1990s, addressing in different contexts the gendered and racialised work of care within families and its relation to women’s paid employment. This research has explored how geographical proximity and distance are inextricably intertwined with unequal relations of gender and socially contingent ethno-racial difference. My early career work focused on the links between unpaid work in the home and women’s labour market participation in Worcester Massachusetts. Later research, mostly in Vancouver, Canada, and the Philippines, has explored the intersections of race and gender in the global market of commodified care, in which women from the global South migrate to the global North to care for families there, along with their families back home. The research has used various methodologies, from standard social science surveys to writing plays for theatrical performances, almost always in collaboration, not only with other academics, but with the communities whose stories are being documented. Collaborations, I argue, are good to think with and through, in part because they can put the white scholar in her place, as located and accountable to her location. What’s near and far matters immensely to people’s life trajectories. Understanding how proximity and distance matter requires close attention to the researcher’s own context and positionality.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.041

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.012
Scholarly communication0.0060.009
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.002

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.251 · 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
GenreOther

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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