antipolitics
- noun
- /ˌæntiˈpɒlɪtɪks/
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antipolítica
- The movement's focus on local issues reflected a growing trend towards antipolitics, rejecting established political parties.
Examples
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In this situation, dissident leaders and thinkers developed what some of them came to call an antipolitics that constituted a strategic retreat into civil society, in the face of what seemed like durable state power, where living in truth was possible through networks of trusted friends and alternative associations beyond the reach of the authorities.
Academic text (1990) -
39. Citing the president's corruption, inefficiency, and undemocratic behavior, Peralta heralded the arrival of military antipolitics to Guatemala.
Academic text (2001) -
In summary, hybridity is a wild metaphor for an antipolitics of use based on consumptive production.
Academic text (1996) -
In the circumstance of the anti-king having moved to the castle, the insistence on antipolitics and on the end of ideology amounts to a mystification.
Academic text (1990) -
Seen in this light, the notion of military "antipolitics" moves beyond the realm of military overzealousness and places intervention, at least in Guatemala, within the realm of legal justification and constitutional mandate.
Academic text (2001) -
Many citizens embraced antipolitics as they grew disillusioned with the corrupt practices of their elected officials.
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Amid rising voter apathy, proponents of antipolitics argue for grassroots engagement rather than traditional campaigning.
Synonyms
To oppose the system and people in power
A belief that opposes government and other usual authorities
Against people in power and the usual way society is run
Opposed to people and groups in power
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word antipolitics joins anti- meaning 'against' and politics, which is about 'public life' and government. So antipolitics describes a view or movement that opposes or rejects the usual political institutions and formal debate.