problematize
problematise BrE

The goal, as they would put it, is to "problematize" whiteness.

To problematize a statement, for example, one asks simple questions:

Peter Eisenman once said the function of architecture is to "problematize" things.

A major problem is that researchers in general to problematize the importance of in their own writings.

Franz Boas was the first anthropologist to problematize the notion of culture.

Gaitana didn’t set out to problematize identity at Eurovision.

Here he emphasizes the importance of distinguishing humans from all other species, not to privilege human intelligence but to problematize it.

It does, however, significantly problematize the grand project of CHG.

My impulse is to problematize material.

Students learn to identify relevant topics, they learn to problematize what they already know and think about issues related to the main theme.

We're going to permanently problematize bitcoin's reputation.

It is the rare sociologist who can forgo a paradigm or two, but problematize began to sound as though somebody was kidding the profession's pretensions.

It commented that Michelet was a political author, which allowed him to problematize political issues which were not acceptable for public debate.

The question of the material nature of digital and affective labor has been consistently used to problematize the idea of immaterial labor.

According to Elaine Graham, hybridity does not only problematize traditional conception of human as the image of God, but also makes terms like "natural" problematic.

As we explore this interpretative field, we will continually face the challenge of trying to determine the extent to which Shakespeare's plays reinscribe and/or problematize cultural norms.

Althusser's significant contribution was to problematize the concept of history by addressing its presuppositions about temporality - an area which Hindess and Hirst altogether neglect.

In history, for example, Robert Bain in his article in How Students Learn, describes how to "problematize" history.

Mandeville's work is full of paradox and is meant, at least partially, to problematize what he saw as the naive philosophy of human progress and inherent virtue.

Record collections are seen as both public displays of power/knowledge and private refuges from the sexual or social world."3 At no time in his article does Straw problematize the term collecting.

Feminist critic Gaylyn Studlar wrote extensively to problematize Mulvey's central thesis that the spectator is male and derives visual pleasure from a dominant and controlling perspective.

As a result, such pluralists fail to problematize Whiteness and the Eurocentric norm, and fail to disrupt the dominant [Northern] narrative (Singh, p. 118).