Meanings
- The quality of being biocolonial, the nature or totality of that which is biocolonial.
2013, Ernesto Schwartz-Martin and Eduardo Restrepo, Biocoloniality, Governance, and the Protection of 'Genetic Identities' in Mexico and Colombia, in Sociology, volume 47, issue 5
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Such critiques of data mining through global health surveillance are further buttressed by literatures addressing other globalising processes of 'bioprospecting', 'biocoloniality', and intellectual property extraction from the hinterlands of global health […]
2019, Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee, Jeremy Youde, The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 42The battle between Amazonian communities and transnational corporations (→ II /23) is ongoing and the notion of biocoloniality is based upon biopolitical arguments developed in different contexts, no longer necessarily European or Western, to conceptualize the local process and the global forces that impinge upon this area of Latin America.
2019, Olaf Kaltmeier, Josef Raab, Mike Foley, Alice Nash, Stefan Rinke, Mario Rufer, The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas, Routledge, →ISBN, page 231
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