dehistoricize

verb

dehistoricize

verb

Etymology From de- + historicize.

1

To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.

  • Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
Derived terms
dehistoricization

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