refunction

To transform (a culture or institution, etc.) in order to promote social change.

Verb

  1. 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,...

Origin

From re- + function, as a calque of German Umfunktionierung.

Forms

refunctions refunctioning refunctioned