biocolonial

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1. Pertaining to biocolonization, pertaining to or involving colonizing peoples by making them reliant on the colonizer's (bio)medical or (bioengineered) agricultural resources.

   […] and biopolitical/biocolonial issues (for example, fear of disease or contamination). […]

   2017, Lisa Hinrichsen, Gina Caison, Stephanie Rountree, Small-Screen Souths: Region, Identity, and the Cultural Politics of Television, LSU Press, →ISBN, page 233

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   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.

   2006, Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN

   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 ...

   2010, Pramod K. Nayar, The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 244

   […] 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.

   2013, Dr Laura J Hatcher, Dr Wayne V McIntosh, Property Rights and Neoliberalism: Cultural Demands and Legal Actions, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., →ISBN

   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.

   2014, Mark Munsterhjelm, Living Dead in the Pacific: Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines, UBC Press, →ISBN, page 209