Endocolonization

Quick meaning: Endocolonization is a noun meaning (social sciences) Colonization by a state or society of (part of) its own population, especially by taking control of their bodies or bodily integrity.

Meaning

(social sciences) Colonization by a state or society of (part of) its own population, especially by taking control of their bodies or bodily integrity.

Example Sentences

As stated above, no longer is this a situation of partial endocolonization, but instead one of total endocolonization, a situation also referred to by Virilio as total war.

Western national economies were beginning to turn inward, and endocolonization was launched at home. At that point, Western high art could indeed identify its subjects with colonial peoples, as the Westerners were now being subjected […]

Does that dominance produce its own endocolonizations? Is there thus a dominant culture, then, or is all culture and subculture — from the American middle class to cadres of Queer theorists — dominant and dominating to those who live within it?

But Maslowska's text obeys a different, post-cold war imperative: to mirror a cultural and socioeconomic situation that is precisely not that of the colonial epoch during which Poland was the site of various European endocolonizations, devoured amongst Russian (later Soviet) and Austo-Hungarian empires.

Word Forms

• endocolonizations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include biocolonization, hypercolonization, biocolonialism, colonogenicity, monocolonisation, monocolonization.

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