Climate conflict in Clive and Dirk Cussler’s action thriller <i>Arctic Drift</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper offers a close reading of Clive and Dirk Cussler’s Arctic Drift (2008) with a focus on the novel’s engagement with human exploration and exploitation of the Arctic and its resources. To study climate and conflict in the novel, we draw upon the Arctic’s potential as a geopolitical arena where territorial claims, resource competition, and environmental challenges give rise to both confrontation and collaboration. We also show how the novel rehistoricises the final Franklin expedition to the Northwest Passage (1845 onwards) and examine the techniques that the authors employ to raise scepticism towards a number of historical and scientific metanarratives with their revisionist narrative. Building on this, the paper investigates how the novel critiques the persistence of colonial ideologies in Arctic discourse, depicting corporate and governmental interests as extensions of historical imperialism. Further, the paper demonstrates how the ecological narrative of the novel draws upon the constantly shifting and mutating ecosystems of the Canadian Arctic and negotiates the significance of sustainability in the endangered circumpolar North.
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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 | 0.001 | 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) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".