undertheorize

present singular third person undertheorizes · participle present undertheorizing · participle past undertheorized · past undertheorized

1. To theorize insufficiently.

   While Sharp acknowledges creative nonviolent intervention as a technique of nonviolent action, he undertheorizes its centrality for promoting political change.

   2005, Kurt Shock, chapter 2, in Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies, page 45

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   While Hutcheon stresses that irony cannot actively create communities, that they must exist prior to the enunciation, she undertheorizes the potential of making members of existing discursive communities present to one another and of strengthening the visceral experience of community.

   2011, Amber Day, chapter 5, in Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate, page 148