Ideal, Myth and Utopia: The Keys to Individual involvement/Ideal, Mythe et Utopie : Les Cles De L'engagement Public Individuel?
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Abstract
Abstract The goal of this article is twofold: to understand the relationships with everyday territory that influence individual political involvement and how these relationships motivate the types of development projects of the people invested in the place where they live. Two studies were conducted in Quebec City. The first study took the form of 26 interviews with members of the neighbourhood council (CQ). The second study was an analysis of memoirs and public consultation reports, and direct observation. From the first study we learned that the history of the neighbourhood and the individuals has led to a certain collective image of the environment. This is why the neighbourhood is a territory that makes sense to the CQ; in other words, it is a lived space. More specifically, individual identity constitutes a junction between a territory and the sense given to this territory. The second study explored the different development projects, between 1990 and 2006, for a contaminated vacant lot in the centre of the city. As of the study, the projects had not been pursued due to the soil contamination. During the years in question, we found points in common among the remarks made by the different protagonists (city officials and neighbourhood residents): the desire for different types of housing (such as condominiums, social housing and cooperatives) and a park. Those who responded to the first study explained that they were involved in the neighbourhood council because they wanted to achieve an ideal. In other words, their motivation for being involved was fuelled by the desire to build a neighbourhood that would support their values and their ideal. The nature of this ideal depended on the individual and collective characteristics of each person, their past experience, and the underlying values. These values were tainted by myth and utopia. The analysis of the second study showed that residents of the neighbourhood with the development project had plans to build an ideal city on the contaminated soil site. They clarified their projects by saying that they wanted a social, generational and cultural mix of people; organic gardens; green buildings, and universal access. In other words, they wanted to transform the contaminated vacant lot into a Garden of Eden. Our research showed that people involved in planning projects made choices motivated by the ideals they held about their lived and represented spaces. Depending on whether or not these residents were able to achieve their ideal and values can lead to public participation. Resume Cet article a pour but de comprendre en quoi la relation au territoire quotidien guide l'engagement politique individuel d'une part et motive les choix d'amenagement des personnes qui s'impliquent dans l'espace dans lequel elles resident, d'autre part. Deux enquetes ont ete menees a Quebec, la premiere sous forme de 26 entretiens aupres de membres des conseils d'administration de conseils de quartier et la seconde par l'analyse de memoires et de rapports de consultations publiques ainsi que par l'observation directe. Les resultats montrent que les ideaux portes par l'espace vecu et represente des personnes qui s'impliquent motivent les choix de ces dernieres. Introduction Dans son article sur les variables susceptibles de motiver l'engagement politique individuel a l'echelle locale, Mark Purcell souligne l'importance de prendre en compte l'approche spatiale pour comprendre une telle participation. > (2001 : 190). Cette remarque est d'autant plus pertinente dans le contexte quebecois contemporain et ce, pour deux raisons. Premierement, le maillage territorial et politique s'est complexifie, revelant des territoires nouveaux : le portrait des villes quebecoises s'est grandement modifie, creant 9 grandes villes de plus de 100 000 habitants, metamorphosant le sens des territoires des anciennes municipalites, creant pour certaines d'entre elles de nouvelles entites territoriales comme l'arrondissement ou la communaute metropolitaine. …
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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 | 0.013 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.114 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.011 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".