"In the greatest abundance": life, governance and discourses of conservation in nineteenth-century Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis investigates the "discourse of conservation" as it is both articulated and critiqued in three texts written by women in the nineteenth century. 'A Plea for Emigration; Or, Notes of Canada West' (1852), written by Mary Ann Shadd and addressed to a Black American audience, critiques romanticized discourses of nationalism and freedom, and reconfigures characterizations of Black emigrant populations in the period from destitute, nai?ve refugees to keen critical thinkers, successful merchants, and agents of national security. 'Burlington Bay Beach and Heights in History', an historical pamphlet written by Mary Rose Holden of the Onondaga Nation and published by the Niagara Historical Society in 1897, conceptualizes European history in a First-Nations frame--one that structurally contains the European presence within the borders of a formerly established, and presently enduring, Six Nations community. Her revisionist history situates First Nations people as valuable demonstraters of successful government. Catharine Parr Traill's 'Stories of the Canadian Forest, Or, Little Mary and her Nurse', published in 1856, teaches (and implicitly questions) the complex social stratification of colonial Canada in various conversations between a nurse and her upper-class charge. These three texts provide a significant comparative example of how the discourses of conservation can be considered a locus for linguistic structures that work to cultivate access, even for disenfranchised individuals, to self-determination, political participation, and governance over land use.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.078 | 0.052 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".