Depoliticization can mask rather than end political influence

Evidence

In many cases the emphasis on the cultural also helped preserve an ostensible depoliticization, which contrasts with the frank Heimatpolitik (homeland policy) of the German expellees; yet the Pieds-Noirs’ depoliticization was, perhaps, less ‘revelatory of an end to the influence of politics on their activities than of a specific structuring of their discourse’. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1020

Categorization

• XREF: Directly contrasts German expellee political mobilization (BHE) with French pied-noir depoliticized route - central to the reader’s comparative purpose. — connects to: Technocratic illusion legitimizes depoliticization by presenting policy as mere administration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2699; Technocratic illusion justified mass depoliticization and exclusion from decision-making. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2699; Anti-politics outsiders normally flounder and get replaced by insiders. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 735 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Technocratic illusion legitimizes depoliticization by presenting policy as mere administration #expands (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2699
• Technocratic illusion justified mass depoliticization and exclusion from decision-making. #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2699