Radical Resistance: Grounded Normativity In Three Speculative Works
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This project employs the concept of grounded normativity, as articulated by Dene political scientist Glen Coulthard in his influential work, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. Using this concept, it examines the contributions of three speculative fiction authors of North American Indigenous heritage: Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel of the Mohegan Tribe, Cherie Dimaline of the Métis Nation, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson of the Nishnaabeg Nation. It delves into how their narratives and the structural composition of their speculative fiction novels not only challenge Eurocentric conventions inside and outside of the academy, but also embody a form of "radical resistance,” as defined by Leanne Simpson in As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Resistance Through Radical Resistance.Structured into five primary chapters, the thesis begins with an in-depth exploration of Coulthard’s critique of recognition politics in Red Skin, White Masks, coupled with an analysis of Simpson’s perspectives on Indigenous resistance as presented in As We Have Always Done. Using their contributions, it explores the implications of the speculative fiction genre as a means of resistance. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to an insightful examination of grounded normativity as it is manifested in three novels: Oracle: A Novel by Melissa Zobel, The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, and Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Simpson. Each novel is analyzed for its unique engagement with the concepts of grounded normativity, resistance and resurgence. Drawing upon insights from Chadwick Allen in Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies, the concluding chapter addresses how Indigenous authors and artists such as Leanne Simpson are pushing the boundaries of genre and form. Specifically, it seeks to respond to Allen's call for a more interdisciplinary approach within academic circles and probes into questions of "allyship," alongside Simpson's critique of the academy as a space of ongoing colonization.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".