Meaning of biocoloniality | Babel Free
Definitions
The quality of being biocolonial, the nature or totality of that which is biocolonial.
Examples
“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”
“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 […]”
“The 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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.