Imagining adoption : filiation and affiliation in the works of Richard Wagamese
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis will explore the works of Richard Wagamese, focusing on his two novels Keeper'n Me and A Ouality of Light as they pertain to the theme of the adoption of Aboriginal children into non=Aboriginal homes with specifrc attention to the framework of colonialism and its relevance to the Sixties Scoop and how this has impacted the identity construction of those Aboriginal people affected.As the title suggests, how adoption is imagined in both novels explores the binaries of filial and affrliative relationships such as birth/adoptive and how this affects adoptees' sense of themselves as Aboriginal people in Canada.Through the figure of the intercultural Aboriginal adoptee ideas of what constitutes "Nativeness" such as appearance, culfural affrliatiorq and relationship to the land are subjected to thorough examination of how identity is both given and chosen.The other aspect to the project involves the fictive Aboriginal adoptee's search for belonging and how this can be seen as a metaphor for the larger issue that many displaced Aboriginal people face finding place and belonging.
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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 | 0.006 | 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 | 0.019 | 0.050 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".