Meaning of self-colonise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To regain power after being colonized.
2. To be introduced into an ecosystem via natural processes.

Examples

“Yet ironically, in the thirty five odd years of Bangladesh's existence, it has remained seized or self-colonised for a long 16 years' period (1975-1990) by military-autocratic and nearly autocratic regimes.”

“And it is imposed on us by the same Ngarrindjeri who themselves were once the colonised. The processes of colonialism in the end become self-colonising.”

“They did not apologise for being Asian; in other words, they did not seem to be self-colonised.”

“Elsewhere in the capital, new shoots are pushing up through the soil on a 460sq m (5,000sq ft) biodiverse green roof at Laban Dance Centre, in southeast London, where the roof has been left to self-colonise with a mixture of seed.”

“The presence of suitable rodent prey introduced by people presumably at or near colonisation about 3000 years ago (Anderson and Clark, 1999; White et al. 2000) was probably the prerequisite that allowed barn owls, which are specialist predators of small mammals and specifically rodents, to self-colonise, presumably from the Solomon Islands.”

“The original idea was to allow the roofs to self-colonise with plants, but they are sometimes seeded to increase their bio-diversity potential in the short term.”

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