biocolonial

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English

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Etymology

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From bio- +‎ colonial.

Adjective

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biocolonial (comparative more biocolonial, superlative most biocolonial)

  1. Pertaining to biocolonization, pertaining to or involving colonizing peoples by making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or (bioengineered) agricultural resources.
    • 2006, Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN:
      Today the logic of this level of biocolonial war is, strictly speaking, not war at all, but rather the establishment of a naturalized, permanent link between "developed nations" and a Western health-care paradigm based on costly prescription drugs.
    • 2010, Pramod K. Nayar, The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 244:
      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 ...
    • 2013, Dr Laura J Hatcher, Dr Wayne V McIntosh, Property Rights and Neoliberalism: Cultural Demands and Legal Actions, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN:
      [] 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.
    • 2014, Mark Munsterhjelm, Living Dead in the Pacific: Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 209:
      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.
    • 2017, Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, Stephanie Rountree, Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 233:
      [] and biopolitical/biocolonial issues (for example, fear of disease or contamination). []

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