communalize

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To take property into communal ownership.

   • For example, in Plato's Republic, marriage was forbidden, wives were "communalized," and children were separated from their parents and considered orphans of the state.
   • In contrast, Fujimoto (2001b) indicated that communalizing parts designs between models and generations might not necessarily reduce development labor hours.
   • First, negdels excluded those who communalized their private livestock and then left the negdel (Nixson and Walters, 2006).
2. 2

   To transfer responsibility and power to the community level.

   • Communalizing this wealth means that the power to determine the ultimate uses and disposition of land and water rests with the appropriate territorial community.
   • In the mid-eighties, the Hindu Right began to communalize the issue of Muslim Personal Law and UCC in order to push its case against state 'minorityism' or 'favouring of religious minorities'.
   • Israel, India and Nigeria represent examples of countries where personal status laws are communalized.
3. 3

   To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group

   To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group; to make (something) the subject of empathic understanding.

   • In general the world exists not only for isolated men but for the community of men; and this is due to the fact that even what is straightforwardly perceptual is communalized.
   • In this case the theme becomes: In what way I, in spite of my uniqueness and ownness, am always already “othered” and communalized, i.e., immersed in the lives of Others and incorporating the Others in mine.
   • Understand how to "communalize" grief so units can get through difficult times together.
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   1. 4

      To develop into a set of community conventions.

      • The speech of insiders is hardly individualized; they are accustomed to communalized speech patterns.
      • Some communal factors, such as norms for naming and revising products and documents, a company-wide documentation archive, the Ericsson project management model, and more had been communalized into stable, communal factors over many years.

The neighborhood

• neighbornationalize
• neighborprivatize