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endocolonizations

endocolonizations is the plural of endocolonization.

Meaning of endocolonization

Noun

endocolonization (plural endocolonizations)

  1. Colonization by a state or society of (part of) its own population, especially by taking control of their bodies or bodily integrity.
    • All of these practices by which the body is voluntarily tortured, disciplined, denied and de(p)leted are part of a larger tendency Paul Virilio calls "endocolonization": "It's no longer exo-colonization (the age of extending world conquest) but the age of intensiveness and endocolonization. One now...1990, Cincinnati Romance Review, pages 62–63

Questions about endocolonizations

What is endocolonizations the plural of?
Endocolonizations is the plural of endocolonization.

Words near endocolonizations in the dictionary

  1. endoclitics
  2. endocobordism
  3. endocobordisms
  4. endocochlear
  5. endocolonization
  6. endocolonizations
  7. endocolpitis
  8. endocommensalism
  9. endocommensalisms
  10. endocon
  11. endocone

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