demodernization

demodernization

English

Etymology

de- +‎ modernization or demodernize +‎ -ation

Noun

demodernization (countable and uncountable, plural demodernizations)

1. Reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from.
   • 2000, Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (Macmillan, →ISBN), page 524:

     A modern account by the eminent scholar Omer Bartov emphasises such factors as the general demodernization of warfare on this [WWII Eastern] front; the ways in which massive casualties destroyed the loyalties of micro, primary groups, leaving soldiers with nothing to identify with other than the macro group of race and nation; [...]

   • 2010, Stephen Graham, Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails, Routledge (→ISBN)

     Ranging from U.S. bombing theory, the systematic deelectrification of Iraq in 1991, continuing Israeli demodernizations of urban life in the Occupied Territories, and the emerging doctrine of state cyberwarfare, Graham ultimately emphasizes the importance of infrastructural warfare...