villagizationn.
/ˌvɪlᵻdʒʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌvɪlɪdʒəˈzeɪʃən/, /ˌvɪlɪˌdʒaɪˈzeɪʃən/, East African English /ˌvilidʒaiˈzeʃn/ The (often compulsory or forcible) relocation of people to planned villages by government and military authorities, in an effort to exert control over previously scattered communities, or as part of a programme of collectivization of agriculture or other economic activity. Cf. Bhoodan n., ujamaa n.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > process > types of
cantonizing1611
diffusion1871
social differentiation1872
acculturation1880
feminization1901
mobilization1911
acculturalization1929
mimesis1934
schismogenesis1935
stimulus diffusion1940
transculturation1941
nativism1943
massification1946
villagization1954
1954 Times 20 Feb. 6/4 Every encouragement should be given to suitable ‘villagization’ as a penal measure..and in those instances where the Kikuyu themselves volunteered to enter into such a scheme.
1980 Sci. Amer. Sept. 152/1 A campaign of ‘villagization’ was begun, and over the next several years a massive transfer of rural population was accomplished.
2016 New Business (Ethiopia) (Nexis) 30 June The ministry planned to villagize 37,473 households, but it only achieved villagization of 8522 households in the last ten months.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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