repoliticize

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verb

To politicize again.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

verbrepoliticize (third-person singular simple present repoliticizes, present participle repoliticizing, simple past and past participle repoliticized)

present singular third person repoliticizes · participle present repoliticizing · participle past repoliticized · past repoliticized · alternative repoliticise

  1. transitiveTo politicize again.

    Bedall shows how social movements, who attempt to repoliticize global climate governance, often end up playing the song of depoliticization.

    2013, Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan, Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)constructing the Greenhouse, Routledge, →ISBN, page 252
    2 more examples

    I shall here sharpen my critique of the Hegelian Marxism of the Frankfurt school, arguing that theorists like Horkheimer and Adorno failed to repoliticize Marxism[…]

    1992, Ben Agger, The Discourse of Domination: From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 239

    I examine some recent attempts to do this — to repoliticize famines — particularly those that introduced the notion of famine as a complex political emergency

    2000, Jenny Edkins, Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 129

Origin

Translations

French repolitiser
  • repolitiserTranslations
Korean 재정치화
  • 재정치화 (jaejeongchihwa)Translations
Spanish repolitizar
  • repolitizarTranslations
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Chicago

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