biocitizenship
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Moreover, one point brought out by all three chapters is that not everyone has equal citizenship in our new biocitizenship age."
- "In the binding pact created between scientific, corporate, and governmental and nongovernmental actors that comprise the nexus of biocapital, a unique type of “biocitizenship” has arisen that challenges traditional pedagogical considerations of civic life."
- "Other social examples of neoliberal biocitizenship are the social drive toward eternal youth, which is linked to the suspension of time in globally mediated societies (Castells 1996) and can be juxtaposed to euthanasia and other social practices of assisted death."
- "Third, this has implications at local levels, in allocating what others have termed biocitizenships: for example, the law is not just about regulating professions, but also about shaping the legitimate healer, the legitimate user and the legitimate interlocutor of the state in making future regulatory decisions."
Etymology
From bio- + citizenship.