Neighbourhood Experiences as Reconciliation: Place, Blackness, and Moving Towards Right-Relations in Malvern,Toronto
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Final Report (TRC) outlines that reconciliation is important for rebuilding the nation-to-nation treaty relations across Canada and all Canadians have an important role and responsibility in nurturing this new relationship. Despite the well-documented exclusion of Black peoples from all domains of Canadian society, research activism concerning reconciliation rarely attends to Canada’s (re)production of racialized hierarchies beyond a settler-native relationship positioning Blackness and the particular experiences of Black people as irrelevant or marginal in theorizing and realizing new geographies of relationality. This study contributes to our collective understanding of reconciliation by examining reconciliation at the axis of Blackness and neighborhood spaces. Towards these ends, I position Black residents’ everyday experiences with each other, their neighbours, the land, its Indigenous rights holders and their histories in Malvern, a racialize immigrant neighbourhood in east Toronto, as emblematic of the challenges and opportunities of supporting reconciliation across uneven geographies of race and racialization.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.045 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".