Sexuality, Sport, and the City: Sporting Mega-Events and the Spatial Politics of Canadian Sexual Citizenship
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In an increasingly globalized world, the changing faces of sexual and national politics deserve interrogation. My thesis research uses the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montréal, and the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver as case studies to illuminate moments of nationalist spectacle. Studying mega-sporting-events can be a way to understand issues of sexual citizenship, spectacle, and identity. These must be considered together to understand how the global locus of settler homonationalism is only liberatory for a privileged few. My goal is to interrogate why the national body politic incorporates some identities and marginalizes others, as well as how neoliberal queer politics operate to fortify Canadian nationalism and sexual exceptionalism. I achieve this goal by examining how discourses around these events generate particular sexualized, raced, and classed power structures. I explore how Canadian nationalism has changed over time, especially in relation to the inclusion of LGBTQ people, as well as in relation to the construction of “queered” Others. A critical discourse analysis method is used to make visible new formations of nationalisms compelled by neoliberal queer politics. My research corroborates and extends a crucial body of literature which challenges homonationalist Canadian queer politics
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".