Biocolonial

Quick meaning: Biocolonial is an adjective meaning Pertaining to biocolonization, pertaining to or involving colonizing peoples by making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or (bioengineered) agricultural resources.

Meaning

Pertaining to biocolonization, pertaining to or involving colonizing peoples by making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or (bioengineered) agricultural resources.

Example Sentences

[…] and biopolitical/biocolonial issues (for example, fear of disease or contamination). […]

The figure of the living dead in a state of nature becomes central to how genetics research functions as technology of sovereignty in biocolonial political economies.

[…] vulnerable populations have demanded that the international community recognize that genetic resources belong to the populations from which the resources are extracted and have mobilized in opposition to a neoliberal biocolonial agenda.

individuals and groups (such as RAFI) to speak out against biocolonial practices. Is there a space, within the biocolonial encounter, for negotiation? As Fanon notes, Specialists in basic health education should give careful thought to the new .

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include biocolonialist, concolonial, biocultural, pseudocolonial, bioindustrial, biocoenological.

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