SOC433H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Altruistic Suicide, Blue-Collar Worker, Agrochemical
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The curious case of the disappearing bees. They are in our food, it is threat since they do pollination. The plants don"t grow without pollinating, the mystery fascinated the public. Dealing with a new pathogen, a virus, a missing link. Stress was making bees sick, growing pollination demand. The behaviour called altruistic suicide as they know they are sick. Bees have become a symbol of environmental protection. African dangerous honey bees coming and taking over honeybees in 70s. Urban beekeeping was getting a buzz, retired blue collar whites. Classic symptoms of ccd has disappeared and changed. Disorder that is unknown and contestes, full accounting that. Privileging certain way of doing bee science. It is limited by privileged, taken for granted knowledge production which is different from systematic knowledge production. Potential mechanism of how we systematically produce ignorance. They are more focused on the way in which certain way of doing research.
