0 present participle of situate
1 to put something in a particular position:
She foregrounds experience and her own subjective responses, sometimes at the expense of situating her work within existing theoretical milieus.
Nor is it enough to merely pre-empt criticism; it is also necessary to develop a different narrative by situating arguments within space and time.
What gives it depth is situating these issues within the argument that runs through the book.
They begin with an introductory section containing general information situating the contemporary language.
Brothers' keepers : situating kinship relations in broader networks of social support.
The musicologist must also reconstruct the source's history, situating and precisely describing it.
The act of situating oneself intellectually usually (though not always) entails the caricature of the views in relation to which one is defining oneself.
Ethnomethodologists situate accounts in the social worlds that produce them without situating themselves in those worlds.
