Meanings
- uncountableThe use of geolocation and geosurveillance technologies to monitor and control individuals in a coercive or surreptitious manner, with the control being overpowering and uncompensated.
As a worst-case scenario, some scholars have also contemplated the possibility of geoslavery in this age of ubiquitous computing[…]
2011, Timothy L. Nyerges, Robert B. McMaster, The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society, page 5111 more example
Images of antebellum plantation society aside, geoslavery has become an accepted practice among employers wary of misuse of company vehicles — whether the worker who disappears for an hour is pursuing an extramarital affair or monopolizing a stool at the donut shop[…]
2010, Mark S. Monmonier, No dig, no fly, no go: how\ maps restrict and control, page 181
Origin
From geo- + slavery, coined by Jerome Dobson and Peter Fisher in 2003 and refined in 2007.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
geoslavery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/geoslavery
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