Thinking with the refrain: What is sustained in sustainability?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mobilizing efforts for active contributions to sustainable societies is an increasingly important task, particularly given the escalating impacts of climate change affecting site specific locations in various intensities. In this article, we explore stories of municipal priorities for sustainability as generated through the Governing Sustainable Municipalities (GSM) project in Saskatchewan, Canada. Through the Deleuzoguattarian concept of the refrain, we question what is actually sustained in sustainability to move to a critical examination of what sustainability does through ontological relationality. Rather than suggesting a universal definition of sustainability, we open up pathways of sustainability policy making and implementation as situated within localized place-based responsiveness to social, environmental, and economic threats; actualizing participatory governance and educational pathways to engender problematization and politicization in reimagining sustainability for different temporal horizons. This article contributes to existing conceptual Deleuzoguattarian work by adding important empirical connections and contributing to the field of critical environmental education.
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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 | 0.008 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.075 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.016 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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.
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".