Privation of Inclusion, Cordon Minoritaire and Racist Oppression in the Public Sector: A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Ugly Side of Beautiful British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation offers a hermeneutic exploration of racialized employees’ lived experiences with racial discrimination at publicly funded places of employment in British Columbia, Canada. Presented in three-paper format, the first article, Self-Identifications and Perceptions of a Phantasm through the Looking-Glass: Tracing Race in Embodied Perceptions, presents a critical illustration of the multitude of ways in which race, as a putative classificatory construct, is phantomic. This paper, through explicating the multifaceted range of meanings produced about race, will also engage in an examination of embodied perceptions of race in these varied and painful articulations. The second paper, Privation of inclusion: An exploration of racialized public servants’ experiences with sabotaged recruitment processes in BC, offers an examination of privation of inclusion at work. Taking the position that the dualistic inclusion-exclusion paradigm fails to capture participants’ lived realities with inclusive exclusions and exclusive inclusions, this article presents privative inclusion as a third space between inclusion and exclusion as a more robust framework for understanding how participants were marked and targeted for differential treatment. The third paper, The body, the stranger and cordon minoritaire: An exploration of racialized civil servants’ lived experiences with contained mobility at work, offers an examination of a particular manifestation of racial discrimination: that of quarantine-like containment of mobility at work. Examining undue restrictions and mobility limitations imposed on participants, this article will use three metaphors – stranger for racialized individuals, body for workplaces and cordon minoritaire as the process of containing the mobility of strangers within the body. Cordon minoritaire is presented as a novel analytical framework to illustrate the ways in which racialized workers’ professional freedoms and career mobilities were restricted in order to quarantine White ecosystems of employment. Consequently, cordon minoritaire machinations created perniciously unequal conditions and fundamentally unjust treatments – depravities that are at odds with whimsical notions of Canada as tolerant, multicultural and morally superior to its neighbour south of the border, the United States of America. Ultimately, and collectively, the three papers included in this dissertation offer nuanced and detailed accounts of microprocesses that perpetrated and perpetuated racial oppression at work, in the BC public sector.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.044 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| 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".