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AS SOMEONE who spends far too much time reading academic journals and far too little talking to real people, I find it fascinating how different the actual meaning of terms can be to how they are often used in popular culture. It is like the Alanis Morissette interpretation of “ironic” compared with, well, what the word actually means. Ironically, kind of ironic, you might say.
Of all the terms with colourful interpretations that I see used in conversations, in the media and online, perhaps the most common is “monoculture”, especially in the field of environmentalism. Far from this just…
