Noun
The process of categorizing something (e.g. history) into named periods.
(weightlifting, sports) Training in segments of a few weeks or months, so that training begins at lower intensity and is gradually increased to high intensity.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgPeriodization sequesters human experience. The historicist separation of the past from the present prohibits empathy with the past and therefore precludes criticism in the present. Russell Berman
Periodization is the disciplinary strategy with which the present establishes its rule over all time and encourages conformism, to the detriment of autonomy, individual and aesthetic. Russell Berman
I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization. Alberto Salazar
Early Neolithic main Periodization: The Levant : 10,000 to 8500 BC; Europe : 5000 to 4000 BC; Elsewhere: varies greatly, depending on region. Source: Internet
;Eneolithic main Periodization: Middle East : 4500 to 3300 BC; Europe : 3000 to 1700 BC; Elsewhere : varies greatly, depending on region. Source: Internet
Eclectic in his methodology, Jameson has continued a sustained examination of the role that Periodization continues to play as a grounding assumption of critical methodologies in Humanities disciplines. Source: Internet