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This chapter argues that democracy may not face its biggest challenge from without, in the form of globalization and authoritarian regimes, but from within, in the form of complacent postmaterialist societies in affluent economies that prefer to stick to their homogeneous and segregated communities rather than engage with society at large. Their views are not informed by concrete interaction and experience but reflect stereotypes popularized by media-savvy global activists.
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See: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf (Accessed Sept 25 2018).
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The cultural turn in social geography with its claim to be a distinctive post-disciplinary approach based on critical political economy and the analysis of capitalist social formations (Barnes 2001) does very much follow the narrative of the dependence—and neo-Marxist theories of the 1970s with their unarticulated normative dimension (Aerni 2011c).
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Epistemic (derived from the ancient Greek word episteme or knowledge) refers to the process in which knowledge is created, validated, justified and disseminated in society to create systems of ‘rational’ beliefs.
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Bt stands for Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a soil bacteria that synthesizes different insecticidal proteins named Cry, Vip, and Cyt that are able to kill different insect orders, or nematodes. These proteins have been extensively used in insect control practices in agriculture, including in organic agriculture.
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Aerni, P. (2018). The Impact of Popular Stereotypes in Academic Research and Public Policy. In: Global Business in Local Culture. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03798-7_4
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