self-colonize

present singular third person self-colonizes · participle present self-colonizing · participle past self-colonized · past self-colonized · alternative self-colonise

1. To regain power (by indigenous people) after having been under colonial rule by another country, typically with the adoption of some of the culture of the former colonizers.

   Nazi-era Schlager are thus reappropriated as part of the FRG after 1989 and help to self-colonize the previously alien(ated) nation of Germany for the Germans.

   2010, Susan G. Figge, Jenifer K. Ward, Reworking the German Past, →ISBN

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   The legacy of colonialism continues and expands to include those who self-colonize thereby reaffirming Weber's caricatures and uncritical idealisations of Westernisation and law or even to idealisations of Islamic law.

   2013, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Anne Griffiths, The Power Of Law In A Transnational World: Anthropological Enquiries, →ISBN

   The significant distinction from Glissant in chamoiseau's novel, however, comes from the fact that the béké masters have been replaced with black policemen; the French power structure allows the various strata of Martinique to self-colonize through their language use.

   2016, Nels Pearson, Marc Singer, Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World, →ISBN, page 85

   Steeped in a military lore from college and from international exposure, the subaltern promised success for shaping an army of modern soldiers from mere peasants and for advancing the schedule to self-colonize the republic's dark corners.

   2017 -, Stephen B. Neufeld, The Blood Contingent: The Military and the Making of Modern Mexico, →ISBN

2. To be introduced into an ecosystem through natural processes, as opposed to deliberate introduction by people.

   Cordgrass will be planted, not left to self-colonize.

   2001, Bolsa Chica Lowlands Restoration Project: Environmental Impact Statement

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   If not, expect an abundance of weeds, by which we mean invasive and nonnative species that self- colonize.

   2008, Sally Stenhouse Kneidel, Sadie Kneidel, Going Green: A Wise Consumer's Guide to a Shrinking Planet, page 95

   Similarly, at Fresh Kills, a closed landfill with barely any living soil or biodiversity, the task of the layers is to build a new thick surface over time—an ecologically engineered surface that will self-colonize and grow and adapt.

   2016, Christophe Girot, Dora Imhof, Thinking the Contemporary Landscape, →ISBN, page 130