A field guide to understanding how concepts, patterns, and cultural knowledge are extracted, repackaged, and re-deployed within semantic warfare systems.
"A groundbreaking glossary that exposes the mechanics of pattern theft, conceptual laundering, and lived resistance in extractive systems."
This dictionary provides the core terminology underlying Semantic War Theory, Extractive Economy analysis, and lived-experience resistance frameworks. It formalises language essential for analysing conceptual theft and epistemic exploitation.
A foundational glossary establishing the conceptual architecture of extractive economies, including pattern theft, semantic laundering, appropriation mechanisms, and resistance strategies. This work anchors both Semantic War Theory and broader Advocacy & Systems Strategy research.
Supporting rigorous frameworks for structural advocacy, systems ethics, and conceptual integrity.
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Explore Services →This dictionary defines key terminology used to identify and analyse harmful extraction patterns inside social, cultural, and organisational systems.
The language introduced here provides the conceptual armoury required to recognise and disrupt semantic warfare tactics.
These terms help practitioners, advocates, and researchers pursue structural solutions, resist conceptual extraction, and build protective knowledge systems.
Key terminology that forms the conceptual foundation of extractive economies, semantic warfare dynamics, and lived resistance frameworks.
Systems in which ideas, culture, labour, or emotional energy are taken without fair reciprocity, recognition, or ethical exchange.
The appropriation of distinct cognitive, cultural, or conceptual patterns from marginalised communities without acknowledgment or correct attribution.
Transforming marginalised knowledge into palatable or commercial forms that erase original meaning, source context, or author identity.
Strategic manipulation of language, definitions, and discourse to control narratives, disempower communities, or distort public understanding.
Everyday strategies through which individuals and communities maintain ownership of their knowledge, identity, and meaning-making systems.
The ways extractive systems identify, select, and draw in high-value cultural concepts for repurposing.
Applying the dictionary enables individuals, communities, and organisations to identify extraction patterns, protect conceptual integrity, and build systems grounded in ethical knowledge exchange.
Building literacy in extraction patterns, protecting authorship, and recognising early signs of conceptual misappropriation.
Strengthening cultural safety, establishing ethical norms, and developing shared strategies for resisting conceptual erasure.
Implementing policies that ensure attribution integrity, ethical collaboration, and protection against exploitative knowledge-use practices.