to problematize

Examples

• All

• The documentary aims to problematize the accepted narratives around climate change.

• Poststructuralist feminisms problematize politics based on identity, suggesting different techniques that may be used in their stead.

  Academic text (1993)

• Why has environmental education failed to "problematize" its circumstances?

  Academic text (1994)

• The works also problematize both sexual and cultural transmission.

  Academic text (2017)

• And whiteness studies is explicitly an attempt to problematize being white.

  Triggernometry

• In a city without a center, the experience of being on the margins is problematized.

  Academic text (1996)

• The point is precisely to problematize that apparatus, its representations.

  Academic text (1991)

• Purposefully or not, the film ultimately problematizes the effect of this tradition of representation.

  Academic text (1993)

• In Ruth Finnegan's response to Walter Ong, she problematizes the very notion of an oral/literate divide.

  Academic text (1997)

• One scenario illustrates these tensions and problematizes race in the polymorphous framing of Appalachia/America.

  Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

C

to critique

vsto problematize

48 6.7

To give an opinion about a work such as a book or film to show its good and bad points

frames something as a subject for critical discussion rather than evaluation

Q

to questionize

vsto problematize

9.9

To look at an idea or belief carefully by asking hard questions

presents something as needing critical discussion and analysis

Antonyms

R

to resolve

623 3.3

To find an answer to a problem and end a disagreement

S

to simplify

99 2.5

Make something easier to understand or use

How Problematic

to problematize

• Formal

1 8.1

to challenge

• Formal

552 4.3

to question

777 3.5

to raise

∞ 3.2

to note

951 1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology