0 past simple and past participle of politicize
1 to make something or someone political, or more involved in or conscious of political matters:
For one consequence of the holistic view of church and commonwealth was that religious issues were very easily politicized.
As the fine arts became commodified and politicized, images of rule too became possessed, interpreted, and contested by subjects.
Cultural boundaries may be most thoroughly politicized when they become coterminous with that of the state.
Also, immigrant integration became more politicized, with various politicians now openly calling for a tougher approach to immigrant integration.
In this case, reputation proved a potent yet fragile source of autonomy in a politicized bureaucracy.
As a consequence, the making of city histories in museums is gradually becoming a more self-critical, politicized and democratic process.
I think it doesn't work very well when it's politicized as we see in some countries around the world today.
In the traditional historiography, it is often stated that these two developments politicized an otherwise 'unpolitical' local government.
