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In ecology, colonization is the arrival of a species at a place it did not previously occupy, followed by its survival and reproduction there so that a population takes hold. MacArthur and Wilson's 1963 An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography treated the number of species on an island as a running balance between the rate at which new species colonize it and the rate at which resident species die out, an idea their 1967 book The Theory of Island Biogeography developed in full. The referent is a population of plants or animals gaining a foothold in a habitat, tracked as a rate of arrival across a landscape, not a microbe settling on a body, one power taking a foreign territory, or a market logic reshaping daily life.[1]
In microbiology and medicine, colonization is the establishment and persistence of a microorganism on a body surface such as the skin, gut, or airway, where it lives and multiplies without causing illness or harm to the host. Casadevall and Pirofski's 2000 Host-pathogen interactions: Basic concepts of microbial commensalism, colonization, infection, and disease set colonization apart from infection, treating it as a state in which a microbe is present and reproducing yet the host suffers no damage, so that only a shift in that balance produces disease. The referent is a microbe stably present on one host without harm, found by culturing or sequencing a body site, not a species spreading across a landscape, one power ruling a territory, or a metaphor in social theory.[2]
In history and political science, colonization, or colonialism, is the process by which one state or people establishes and maintains control over territory and populations beyond its own borders, governing them from the outside and often settling its own people there. Horvath's 1972 A definition of colonialism, in Current Anthropology, treated colonialism as a form of domination in which one group rules a foreign territory, and worked to mark it off from related terms such as imperialism and from settlement that carries no domination. Scholars study its political, economic, and cultural forms and their long consequences. The referent is a relationship of external rule over land and people, analysed by historians and social scientists, not a species reaching new ground, a microbe on a host, or a system logic entering everyday life.[3]
In social theory, colonization is a metaphor introduced by Jürgen Habermas for a process internal to modern society: the way the impersonal logics of money and bureaucratic power, which he calls the system, spread into the lifeworld, the shared background of everyday understanding, and crowd out communication and mutual agreement as the way people coordinate their lives. Habermas's 1981 Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, translated in 1987 as The Theory of Communicative Action, describes this as the colonization of the lifeworld. The referent is an abstract social process theorised within one society, taking the word by analogy, not a species arriving in a habitat, a microbe on a host, or the literal rule of one country over another.[4]
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