Concerning the Ottawa River
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores relations with the Ottawa River - both historically and in the contemporary - in the context of settler colonialism. Through a combination of archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, I trace how the Ottawa River has been taken up as a concern in settler discourse, emphasizing how these concerns shift and drift across time and landscape. My thesis argues that settlers' relations with the Ottawa River shape conceptualizations of control and governance through resource extraction, nation-building, and securing ecological futures. My research traces historical processes that have shaped the riverine environment and which resonate in the contemporary. I show how concerns about settlement, aesthetics, and the future are linked. Settlement is a main theme in river relations in Ottawa's early colonial period as a lumber town. As Ottawa became a centre of vice-regal elites, chosen as the nation's capital, tension emerged between use of the river for resource-extraction and aesthetic concerns, which are related to ecological concerns around pollution and good citizenship. These latter concerns link with, while not entirely aligning with, the aim of Ottawa Riverkeeper - a grassroots environmental NGO which is the main site of my fieldwork - to help sustain a healthy Ottawa River Watershed now and in the future. -- Cette thèse explore les relations - à la fois historiques et contemporaines - avec la rivière des Outaouais dans un contexte de colonialisme de peuplement. En combinant un travail d'archives avec celui du terrain ethnographique, j'entreprends de tracer comment la rivière des Outaouais a été saisie en tant qu'enjeu au sein du discours colonial, en mettant l'emphase sur la manière dont les problématiques qui lui sont liées glissent et dérivent à travers le temps et le paysage. J'y propose que les relations des colons avec la rivière des Outaouais informent certaines conceptualisations du contrôle et de la gouvernance par l'extraction de ressources, la construction nationale et la sécurisation de futurs écologiques. Ma recherche trace les processus et les structures historiques qui ont informé l'environnement riverain et résonnent au contemporain. Je démontre que la manière dont des préoccupations pour le peuplement, l'esthétique et le futur y sont liées. Le peuplement par les colons constitue l'un des thèmes principaux des relations fluviales pendant la période coloniale précoce d'Ottawa en tant que ville d'exploitation forestière. À mesure que la ville devient un centre pour les élites liées au consort vice-royal puis la capitale nationale, une tension émerge entre l'utilisation de la rivière pour l'extraction de ressources et certains enjeux esthétiques, qui rejoignent des préoccupations écologiques quant à la pollution et à la bonne citoyenneté. Ces dernières sont liées, sans toutefois pleinement s'aligner, aux objectifs du Garde-rivière des Outaouais - une ONG environnementale communautaire qui constitue le site principal de mon terrain - pour le maintien de la bonne santé du bassin versant de la rivière des Outaouais, aujourd'hui et à l'avenir.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".