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countable and uncountable, plural commodifications
The assignment of a commercial value to something previously valueless. quotations examples
Subcultures tend to go through continual cycles of commodification and resistance to that commodification.
2006, Ross Haenfler, Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean-Living Youth, and Social Change
One drizzly morning, I joined a political walking tour to hear former combatants of the Troubles show off Belfast landmarks and tell their stories. Almost everything about this notion piqued my curiosity: the commodification of violence into a tourist product; the idea that “politics” was actually history.
2023 November 21, Megan K. Stack, “Is Ireland Headed for a Merger?”, in The New York Times