Fishing in Contested Waters: Place and Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoôpetitj
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Abstract
Sarah J. King, Fishing In Contested Waters: Place and Community in Burnt Church/Esgenoopetitj. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 2013. 203 pages. ISBN 978-1-442-61096-5. $24.95 paperback.This new book takes us to a notorious flashpoint in Atlantic Canada as it reads antecedents, events, and their aftermath through an interdisciplinary lens. The goal is to develop an account more attentive than its predecessors to the points of view of both the English-Canadian and the Mi'kmaw parties to a dispute involving lobster and much more. King dedicates her study to the people of both Burnt Churches. She thus makes clear from the outset the sincerity of her attempt at an evenhandedness that may yet help to heal deep and lasting wounds more effectively than church and state have been able to do. But that healing process will also require the treaty-based, post-racist redistribution of opportunity and reward-action that is refused across Canada as unaffordable and unfairly preferential, thus bringing the racist underpinnings of a ruthlessly extractive economy to the caustic attention of United Nations rapporteurs like Olivier de Schutter and James Anaya.King completed a year of ethnographic field work in the communities, gaining access to and winning the trust of key participants in and observers of the conflict, and building from their testimony a better sense of the roots and ramifications of events that reveal a number of Canada's dirty secrets to the world. There is no direct mention, however, of her seeking clearance from Mi'kmaw Ethics Watch (the committee that oversees, through its articulated principles and protocols, all research involving Mi'kmaw people). In six chapters and a postscript, the author charts the consequences of the Supreme Court decision in the Donald Marshall case in September 1999. This decision placed the Court, before its subsequent and unprecedented clarification, well ahead of popular opinion in colonial and neocolonial Canada in recognising the Mi'kmaw fishing and harvesting rights entrenched in the Treaties of Peace and Friendship (1760/61) with the British Crown. Two years of followed Marshall, as the Mi'kmaq tried to act once again upon their rights in the lobster fishery in face of settler opposition, media incomprehension and backlash, and state-sponsored violence. On the basis of participant observation and interviews represented by numerous and memorable voices from two internally divided and externally combative communities, King brings to life for the reader a conflict over legitimacy and belonging in a contested place. This story of predictable embitterment, official bungling, and fragile compromise is skilfully unfolded while unsettling the idea of home, both in Burnt Church and across nominally postcolonial Canada.King's understanding of place is notably enriched by the work of Keith Basso on the Western Apache and Alfred Crosby on ecological imperialism, but less so by her appeals to Heidegger. Like Carl Schmitt, who might also have been drawn on here, Heidegger is an important thinker with a problematic relation to Nazism and the forms of purified belonging which that political movement favoured. Disappointingly absent from King's account is the work of Marxist geographers inspired by Henri Lefebvre's seminal La production de l'espace (Anthropos, 1974). …
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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 | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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