repoliticise

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A form of repoliticize — To politicize again.

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Meanings

verbrepoliticise (third-person singular simple present repoliticises, present participle repoliticising, simple past and past participle repoliticised)

present singular third person repoliticises · participle present repoliticising · participle past repoliticised · past repoliticised

  1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of repoliticize.

    They have tried – thus far with limited success – to repoliticise the issue.

    2014, Benjamin Stephan, Richard Lane, The Politics of Carbon Markets, Routledge, →ISBN
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    This is reminiscent of the claim that politicians can be pressured to repoliticise a subject and become engaged with it again (Flinders and Buller 2006: 296), but it offers a set of specific conditions under which this might happen.

    2013, C. Kuzemko, The Energy Security-Climate Nexus: Institutional Change in the UK and Beyond, Springer, →ISBN, page 56

    Ultimately, poststructural thought does not simply embrace 'open borders' as a normative position, but rather challenges us to repoliticise all distinctions, borders and bordering practices[…]

    2016, Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Reiko Shindo, Critical Imaginations in International Relations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 23
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