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Record W4416914688 · doi:10.7202/1121859ar

Seeing Like a Settler: Taylor Swift’s folklore and the White Visualization of Settler Colonialism

2025· article· en· W4416914688 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueRACAR Revue d art canadienne · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal and cultural studies analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFolklorePasserWhite (mutation)Colonialism

Abstract

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À partir de l’album folklore de Taylor Swift (2020) considéré comme trame pour concevoir le colonialisme de peuplement en Amérique du Nord, cet article examine la signification, pour la discipline de l’histoire de l’art au Canada, de « voir comme un colon ». En explorant les connivences qui sous-tendent les fantasmes et la féminité idéalisée des pionnières blanches à travers des tropes familiers, tels que le retour à l’enfance et à la nature, je me sers de folklore pour m’interroger sur les objets de confort de l’évasion coloniale qui se sont à mon sens cristallisés dans l’isolement de la pandémie de COVID-19. Je compare les imaginaires coloniaux de folklore à ceux du photographe canadien écossais du XIX e siècle, William Notman, pour montrer que ni les fantasmes coloniaux de Swift ni les miens ne sont nouveaux, mais qu’ils s’inscrivent plutôt dans un schéma de longue haleine qui consiste à se voir comme un colon pour éviter les désagréments des complicités coloniales. En fin de compte, je me sers de cette recherche pour rejeter les fantasmes apparemment inoffensifs des femmes blanches colonisatrices comme des sources de confort non violentes auxquelles nous pouvons facilement revenir dans les moments de (relative) difficulté.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.948
Threshold uncertainty score0.979

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.239 · 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