repoliticize

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Etymology

From re- +‎ politicize.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To politicize again.
    • 1992, Ben Agger, The Discourse of Domination: From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 239:
      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 []
    • 2000, Jenny Edkins, Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 129:
      I examine some recent attempts to do this — to repoliticize famines — particularly those that introduced the notion of famine as a complex political emergency
    • 2013, Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan, Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De)constructing the Greenhouse, Routledge, →ISBN, page 252:
      Bedall shows how social movements, who attempt to repoliticize global climate governance, often end up playing the song of depoliticization.

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