Words similar to instrumentalization
Example sentences for: instrumentalization
How can you use “instrumentalization” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
You write that I am "quite good at ferreting out" instances of "instrumentalization of [the Holocaust] toward cheap and self-interested ends."
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."
But you went way beyond that--counterposing your traditional/cultural hypothesis to my alleged view that "every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."
For you (and others) "instrumentalization" is invidious--and discreditable.
Or perhaps, for you, "instrumentalization" hinges on motive : Perhaps you believe the Holocaust was invoked for these ends "cynically" or "insincerely"?