refunction

Meanings

verbrefunction (third-person singular simple present refunctions, present participle refunctioning, simple past and past participle refunctioned)

present singular third person refunctions · participle present refunctioning · participle past refunctioned · past refunctioned

transitiveTo transform (a culture or institution, etc.) in order to promote social change.
A global corporate power, Del Rio Inc., attempts to refunction a Mexican peasant culture of small-holders for biopolitical exploitation by commodifying the water that sustains their way of life.
2016, Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper, Approaches to American Cultural Studies, page 143