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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
meaning of naturalize
Does "naturalizing" in the following contexts imply "making natural and common" and can I replace it with "embodying" ?
Contexts:
Being forced to engage with otherness beyond our defined boundaries of selfhood in fact has a civilising effect on social life. In other words, ‘naturalising’ the experience of disruption prevents a city’s inhabitants from becoming alienated, intolerant of the concept of disorder to such an extent that their responses turn all the more aggressive when situations of conflict do happen to arise.
Mouffe, though, has shown that democracy is not delivered via circumstances of arriving at unity and consensus, which tends to imply naturalising exclusions or ignoring difference
Contexts:
Being forced to engage with otherness beyond our defined boundaries of selfhood in fact has a civilising effect on social life. In other words, ‘naturalising’ the experience of disruption prevents a city’s inhabitants from becoming alienated, intolerant of the concept of disorder to such an extent that their responses turn all the more aggressive when situations of conflict do happen to arise.
Mouffe, though, has shown that democracy is not delivered via circumstances of arriving at unity and consensus, which tends to imply naturalising exclusions or ignoring difference
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Hi I wouldn't use 'embody' there. To embody something means to devote most of your being to it, but the writer is describing only one feature of city life, Your first definition - to make natural or common - is good. The simplest phrases are probably 'become used to' or 'accept' In a city, people become used to encountering new and different experiences, different art, different cultures and so on.
- Hi I wouldn't use 'embody' there.
- To embody something means to devote most of your being to it, but the writer is describing only one feature of city life, Your first definition - to make natural or common - is good.
- The simplest phrases are probably 'become used to' or 'accept' In a city, people become used to encountering new and different experiences, different art, different cultures and so on.
- The question is whether they then become more used to accepting and enjoying new things; or whether - as Mouffe would say - they are accepting that life is a constant battle with new and unwelcome things Dave
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Hi
I wouldn't use 'embody' there. To embody something means to devote most of your being to it, but the writer is describing only one feature of city life,
Your first definition - to make natural or common - is good. The simplest phrases are probably 'become used to' or 'accept'
In a city, people become used to encountering new and different experiences, different art,
I wouldn't use 'embody' there. To embody something means to devote most of your being to it, but the writer is describing only one feature of city life,
Your first definition - to make natural or common - is good. The simplest phrases are probably 'become used to' or 'accept'
In a city, people become used to encountering new and different experiences, different art,
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