Urban Spaces of Crisis Solidarity: Mutual Aid, Prefiguration, and Critical Imaginaries
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This study engages with urban spaces of crisis solidarity through the case of Oxford Mutual Aid (OMA). Providing food under an ethic of care and solidarity, OMA's everyday practices contest the neoliberal order by opening material, relational, and imaginative space to enact and envision alternative ways of being. At the same time, OMA embodies the tensions of interstitial urban movements struggling to sustain non‐hierarchical forms of organisation within a hostile political‐economic landscape. Their capacity for more transformative or agonistic politics is structurally constrained by the very conditions they seek to address, leading to an emphasis on social reproduction over overt political disruption. I centre this paradox in the recurring phrase that OMA “shouldn't exist”, reading it as a powerful discursive and material critique of the status quo, a foundation for solidaristic socio‐material relations, and an ambiguous, yet open, gesture toward more just and caring political futures.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.084 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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 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".