Affection and Reflective Expectations in the Geographical Indication

This paper is based on the theoretical discussion of the following analyze categories: reflective expectations, affection, agrarian systems, and geographical indication. The reflective expectations category has its proposition based on the notion, the concepts of expectations and reflexivity, supporting etymologically. This concept is explicitly analyzed when the agrarian system formation is considered and recognizes the geographical indications of a product, culturally linked to a territory and region. It is not about a specific study of a product, a region, contemplated with a geographical indication, and Indication of Origin and Denomination of Origin or a specific agrarian system. The aim is to comprehend how the knowledge is disseminated, appears, and signifies itself in the agrarian systems formation and its products in its regions linked to a public policy of the geographical indication. The thesis is that social formation happens through two affection-cognitive processes: knowledge transmission by affection and reflective expectations. Keywords: affection, reflective expectations, geographical indication