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strangification en · NOUN

Etymology

From strange + -ification or strangify + -ation.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of strangifying. ▸ The act or process of making strange or exotic.
    • More precisely, it is a 'strangification' of these peoples in the policy text by leaving their enactments 'outside' of what is inscribed as necessary for achieving European citizenship. 2013, Maria Olson, “Citizenship Education without Citizenship? The Migrant in EU Education Policy on European Citizenship—Toward the Margin through 'Strangification'”, in Reinhold Hedtke, Tatiana Zimenkova, editor, Education for Civic and Political Participation, page 166:
    • All is elegantly phrased, a collection of efficient yet evocative images, attesting to the strangification of a scene, to us and to the poet, already a bit exotic for its tropical location. 2017, Garrett Hongo, The Mirror Diary: Selected Essays, page 75:
    • Cohen's project of strangification—a type of postmodern extension of Freire's term of conscientization—is directed at destabilizing and decentering the monumentalization of the already known and the militarization of existing sign systems established by the academic gentry and mandarins of high status knowledge whose participation is aimed at the legitimization of their own power. 2018, Peter Mclaren, Revolutionary Multiculturalism:
  2. (uncountable) The act or process of strangifying. ▸ The act or process of extending so as to become understandable by others.
    • Simply put, human life is an unceasing process of self-exension by way of 'strangification' as well as self-awareness by way of reflection. 2012, Stephen B. Scharper, Ingrid Leman-Stefanovic, The Natural City: Re-envisioning the Built Environment, page 118:
    • In this sense, strangification is the minimum reasonable approach to globalization, as it is directly opposed to hegemony. 2007, Zhao Dunhua, Dialogues of Philosophies, Religions and Civilizations in the Era of Globalization, page 201:
    • The aim of this act of strangification is to increase one's understandability and acceptability to many others, not to become other than oneself. 2018, Ming Dong Gu, Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters:
  3. (uncountable) The process of transporting (something) into an entirely new context, leading to new insights.