coloniality

American  

[kuh-loh-nee-al-i-tee] / kəˌloʊ niˈæl ɪ ti /

noun

1. the set of attitudes, values, ways of knowing, and power structures upheld as normative by western colonizing societies and serving to rationalize and perpetuate western dominance.

   The end of colonial administrations in the modern world was not the end of coloniality.

2. Animal Behavior. the state or condition of associating in colonies.

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Etymology

Origin of coloniality

First recorded in 1860–65; colonial + -ity

Example Sentences

“This idea of coloniality is still going on,” and the representations are carry-overs from colonial times, she said.

From New York Times

“Central in resisting coloniality is defying colonial authority in what constitutes knowledge, how it is produced, and who is allowed to claim custodianship,” the framework states.

From Nature

"Nonclonal coloniality: Genetically chimeric colonies through fusion of sexually produced polyps in the hydrozoan Ectopleura larynx."

From Scientific American

Vo Danh isn’t alone in his plight: Everywhere he looks in France he encounters others like him, whom coloniality has both ghosted and made ghosts of.

From New York Times

Such synchronous breeding activity is probably a function of strong coloniality with attendant "social facilitation" of breeding behavior.

From Project Gutenberg