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biocolonialist

biocolonialist adjective: engaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.

Adjective

biocolonialist (comparative more biocolonialist, superlative most biocolonialist)

  1. Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.
    • Hence, Indigenism is concerned both with challenging this biocolonialist agenda that has dire portents for a ‘new age eugenics’, and also with ecological alternatives that seek to live in reciprocity with the land.2000, M. A. Jaimes Guerrero, “Native Womanism: Exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship”, in Graham Harvey, editor, Indigenous Religion: A Companion, page 50
    • But perhaps the most noteworthy distinction is not between population genomics projects, but between recent projects that emphasize finding specific-population genomes and the earlier “biocolonialist” projects such as the HGDP.2005, Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, page 139

Forms of biocolonialist

comparativemore biocolonialist
superlativemost biocolonialist

Origin of biocolonialist

From bio- + colonialism.

Questions about biocolonialist

What does biocolonialist mean?
Biocolonialist means engaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.
What part of speech is biocolonialist?
Biocolonialist is an adjective.

Words near biocolonialist in the dictionary

  1. biocolloid
  2. biocolloidal
  3. biocolloids
  4. biocolonial
  5. biocolonialism
  6. biocolonialist
  7. biocoloniality
  8. biocolonization
  9. biocolorant
  10. biocolorants
  11. biocolourant

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