Inscription, Innocence, and Invisibility: Early Contributions to the Discursive Formation of the North in Samuel Hearne's 'A Journey to the Northern Ocean'
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Abstract
NiCHE has archived 15 video presentations from this event A two-day workshop addressing the myth of the "Great White North" as a major theme in contemporary debates about Canadian geography and identity. Discussions placed critical race theorists in dialogue with scholars studying the idea of nature in order to consider how social constructions of race, whiteness and nature are interconnected in creating the Canadian nation. The objectives of the workshop were: to evaluate how the concept of nature has been and continues to be implicated in the co-construction of race and whiteness in Canada to draw scholarly attention to the geographical configurations of racisms in Canada and elsewhere and to initiate interdisciplinary debate on the complex ways that history and geography are implicated in the production of racialized social formations. Citation: Milligan, Richard & Tyler McCreary. "Inscription, Innocence, and Invisibility: Early Contributions to the Discursive Formation of the North in Samuel Hearne's 'A Journey to the Northern Ocean'." Rethinking the Great White North. 1 February 2008. Bio : Richard Milligan teaches English at Vanier College and McGill University. Tyler McCreary is a PhD candidate in Geography at York University. Abstract : Although very few Canadians have ever ventured into the artic, the now-mythic image of the harsh and unbridled North remains a significantly defining characteristic of Canadian identity. Published in 1795, Samuel Hearne’s A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort, in Hudson’s Bay, to the Northern Ocean is one of the first representations of this contested terrain attributable to a European. In his narrative inscription of this uncharted land and its inhabitants, Hearne etches themes that were instrumental to historical processes of colonization and that remain prominent in Canada today. Thus, using Hearne’s A Journey, we explore how narrations of the natural environment are inextricably linked to social processes, particularly the exercise of colonial power and the performance of cultural identity.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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