Biocolonialist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Biocolonialist is an adjective meaning (social sciences) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.
Meaning
(social sciences) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.
Example Sentences
Although the term ‘biocolonialism’ has only recently been broadly adopted, biocolonialist practices have had a long history.
Hence, Indigenism is concerned both with challenging this biocolonialist agenda that has dire portents for a ‘new age eugenics’, and also with ecological alternatives that seek to live in reciprocity with the land.
But perhaps the most noteworthy distinction is not between population genomics projects, but between recent projects that emphasize finding specific-population genomes and the earlier “biocolonialist” projects such as the HGDP.
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