Reconceptualizing development from women's standpoint in colonial relations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study aims at reconceptualizing "Development" through investigation of local forms of social organization that articulate the work of women in Canada to the Development regime. The study exposes how historically-anchored social relations operated through the twentieth century to variously organize the lives of women, reappropriate their caring labour and reproduce distortions of difference among them. The investigation that formed the basis of this inquiry took as its starting point the "standpoint of women" as elaborated by sociologist and feminist thinker Dorothy E. Smith. Thirty-seven people who experienced the death of a family member on Lake Simcoe in the vicinity of the Town of Georgina between 1950 and 1999 were interviewed. Sixteen women, all of whom had each experienced the death of their male partner on the lake, were selected for indepth interviews. These interviews explored the grieving, self-care and life-reordering work each woman was required to do and did in the wake of her partner's death, and how the event of the death operated to articulate her work to larger social, economic, and political processes comprising the ruling apparatus. The interviews brought into focus similarities and differences in women's experiences, and illuminated the relationship of local peoples' colonial and imperial past to their globalized and globalizing present. Information gathered through interviewing guided subsequent investigation into institutional processes that shaped local experiences. The investigator used institutional ethnography as the mode of inquiry into a series of institutional work sites: (1) the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Indian Claims Commission; (2) the coroner's inquest into the drowning deaths of five Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen and the print media; (3) Hospice Georgina/Chippewa of Georgina Island volunteer caregiving services and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Social Services health care reform; (4) Transit Georgina and the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, Community Transportation Action Program. In addition to interviews, methods of investigation included historical archival research and analysis of organizational documents and other contemporaneous textual forms and knowledge practices.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.084 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".