biocolonialist

English

Etymology

From bio- +‎ colonialism.

Adjective

biocolonialist (comparative more biocolonialist, superlative most biocolonialist)

1. (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.