biocolonialist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bio- + colonialism.
Adjective
[edit]biocolonialist (comparative more biocolonialist, superlative most biocolonialist)
- (social sciences) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.
- 2000, M. A. Jaimes Guerrero, “Native Womanism: Exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship”, in Graham Harvey, editor, Indigenous Religion: A Companion[1], page 50:
- 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.
- 2005, Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture[2], page 139:
- 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.
- 2013, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts[3], page 28:
- Although the term ‘biocolonialism’ has only recently been broadly adopted, biocolonialist practices have had a long history.