biocolonialist

comparative more biocolonialist · superlative most biocolonialist

1. human sciencesEngaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.

   Although the term ‘biocolonialism’ has only recently been broadly adopted, biocolonialist practices have had a long history.

   2013, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts, page 28

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   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.

   2000, M. A. Jaimes Guerrero, “Native Womanism: Exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship”, in Graham Harvey, editor, Indigenous Religion: A Companion, page 50

   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.

   2005, Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, page 139