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repoliticize

repoliticize verb: to politicize again.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To politicize again.
    • 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 emergency2000, Jenny Edkins, Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 129

Forms of repoliticize

third-person singular presentrepoliticizes
present participlerepoliticizing
past participlerepoliticized
pastrepoliticized
alternative formrepoliticise

Origin of repoliticize

From re- + politicize.

Questions about repoliticize

What does repoliticize mean?
Repoliticize means to politicize again.
What part of speech is repoliticize?
Repoliticize is a verb.
What is the past tense of repoliticize?
The past tense of repoliticize is repoliticized.

Words near repoliticize in the dictionary

  1. repolishings
  2. repolishment
  3. repoliticise
  4. repoliticization
  5. repoliticizations
  6. repoliticize
  7. repoliticized
  8. repoliticizes
  9. repoliticizing
  10. repoll
  11. repollard

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