Canada’s dual and antithetical roles: An interview with Kit Dobson about <i>We Are Already Ghosts</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Kit Dobson’s work focuses on several controversial issues in Canadian Indigenous history. The effects of oil capitalism on the environment is at the core of Field Notes on Listening, while Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada addresses the socio-economic impacts of shopping malls in Canada. Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization examines Canadian literary traditions in the context of globalization, and We Are Already Ghosts tackles issues of Indigenous identities and the current politics surrounding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. All these, and Dobson’s edited works – Please, No More Poetry: The Poetry of derek beaulieu; Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace; Transnationalism, Activism, Art; Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom; and All the Feels: Affect and Writings in Canada – serve as a springboard for this interview in tracing his diverse viewpoints about Canada’s evolution from a colonial past.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.073 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.010 |
| 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".