Meaning of undertheorize | Babel Free

Definitions

To theorize insufficiently.

Examples

“While Sharp acknowledges creative nonviolent intervention as a technique of nonviolent action, he undertheorizes its centrality for promoting political change.”

“While Hutcheon stresses that irony cannot actively create communities, that they must exist prior to the enunciation, she undertheorizes the potential of making members of existing discursive communities present to one another and of strengthening the visceral experience of community.”

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