The Canadian Arctic resource frontier: Renegotiations of space in a changing environment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis is concerned with analysing different imaginations of space within the Canadian Arctic mining sector. As the Arctic is perceived to be changing, this thesis is specifically interested in how this very change is influencing the geographical imaginations of the region. Aiming to describe the structure of understandings of space in the context of the Canadian Arctic mining sector, this thesis examines these geographical imaginations in a critical discourse analysis. Doing so, this thesis understands the analysed interactions and renegotiations of different geographical imaginations as frontier dynamics. After having analysed the general discursive structure of these understandings of space, the thesis then specifically focuses on contested parts of the discursive structure and highlights how these contested parts are negotiated in between different levels of government, but also in between different federal administrations. The main findings of the thesis are fourfold: Firstly, the identified nature of the dominant discourse within mining in the Canadian Arctic is centred around an imagination of the future being based on „apolitical“, socio-economic growth. Secondly, the main rift in the discourse can be found between the perception of the distribution of power being just or unjust, where Indigenous groups specifically criticize the distribution of power as a main feature hindering the prosperity of Northern communities. Thirdly, even though stark rhetorical differences exist between the Harper and the Trudeau administration in regard to mining and development in the North, the discursive continuities between the two administrations are more pronounced than the rhetorical differences and it is assessed that there is no substantial change in the understanding of Northern space between the Harper and the Trudeau administration. Lastly, it is also assessed that the interplay of different discursive elements reinforces dominant discourse about the Canadian North, thereby making an engagement with the criticized distribution of power and a change in the continued extractive relationship between Canadian North and Canadian South rather unlikely.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.056 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.015 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".