refunction
verbEtymology From re- + function, as a calque of German Umfunktionierung.
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To transform (a culture or institution, etc.) in order to promote social change.
- A global corporate power, Del Rio Inc., attempts to refunction a Mexican peasant culture of small-holders for biopolitical exploitation by commodifying the water that sustains their way of life.2016, Antje Dallmann, Eva Boesenberg, Martin Klepper, Approaches to American Cultural Studies, page 143: