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Example sentences for: instrumentalization
How can you use “instrumentalization” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
In your exchange with Philip Gourevitch about my book The Holocaust in American Life , you wrote the following, apropos of what you termed "the so-called 'lessons of the Holocaust,' or why we recall the Holocaust at all": "I would suggest, contra Novick, that not every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."
In this, it would be a little too easy to blame the rapid-fire format for my misstating of your approach to the "instrumentalization" (my word, not yours) of the Holocaust.
At the same time, I wouldn't characterize my own position as reflexively knee jerk against instrumentalization, in that I find every memory, institutional or otherwise, "instrumentalizes" to some degree.
Given the narrowness of both my hasty characterization of your position (vis-à-vis "instrumentalization") and of your own objection to my characterization, I'm glad to be able to come back and say now that my words were unfair to your much more complex approach to "the uses of the Holocaust."
Let's turn to "instrumentalization"--a word which appears to carry a strong negative charge for you.
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