A View of the Chemical Valley: Waste and Wasting in Jennilee Austria- Bonifacio's "The Outsiders"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper analyses “The Outsiders”, the sixth short story included inCanadian Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio’s 2023 collection Reuniting with Strangers, from theproductive juncture at the intersection of environmental and eco-social justice theories.With special attention to the local-international scale of globalisation processes, and thedefiance brought to light by the attempt at narrating eco-social violence, it is proposedfirst that the so-called Anthropogenic Great Acceleration, which chronologicallyencloses Filipinos’ first massive arrivals at Canada, also provides a context in which toweave a critical dialogue between turbo-capitalist ecological disposability and humandispensability within toxic neoliberal power structures. Secondly, it is argued that,within a general context of dynamic wasting relations, the story articulates a generalrepoliticisation of the current socio-ecological crisis in which a transnational alliancebased on sharing and caring reduces power asymmetries and provokes a collapse of thedualities scaffolding concepts like home and outsider to advocate instead their multiscalarrefiguration.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.032 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| 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".