biocoloniality means the quality of being biocolonial, the nature or totality of that which is biocolonial.
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Why “biocoloniality” is a great word
The extension of colonial power and exploitation into the realms of biology, genetics, and corporeal life. Its etymology is from the English combining form bio- ("life, living organisms") + colonial (pertaining to the establishment and maintenance of colonies) + the noun-forming suffix -ity (denoting a state or condition). Unlike "colonialism," which asserts political dominion over territory, or "biopiracy," which names a discrete act of theft, biocoloniality is the pervasive, systemic condition that underpins them. It is the patent filed on a long-cultivated seed strain, the extraction of a cell line from an indigenous body without consent, and the database where ancestral genomes become proprietary code—a quiet war where the body and its very blueprints are the final, intimate colonies.
Etymology
From biocolonial + -ity.
noun
- 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”
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