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biocoloniality

biocoloniality noun: the quality of being biocolonial, the nature or totality of that which is biocolonial.

Noun

biocoloniality

  1. The quality of being biocolonial, the nature or totality of that which is biocolonial.
    • 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 […]2019, Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee, Jeremy Youde, The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 42

Origin of biocoloniality

From biocolonial + -ity.

Questions about biocoloniality

What does biocoloniality mean?
Biocoloniality means the quality of being biocolonial, the nature or totality of that which is biocolonial.
What part of speech is biocoloniality?
Biocoloniality is a noun.

Words near biocoloniality in the dictionary

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

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