biocolonial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to biocolonization, pertaining to or involving colonizing peoples by making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or (bioengineered) agricultural resources.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 ..."
- "[…] 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."
- "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."
- "[…] and biopolitical/biocolonial issues (for example, fear of disease or contamination). […]"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more biocolonial (comparative)
most biocolonial (superlative)