repoliticize

English

Alternative forms

repoliticise

Etymology

re- +‎ politicize

Verb

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

(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.

Translations

French: repolitiser (fr)

Spanish: repolitizar