antipower
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editantipower (comparative more antipower, superlative most antipower)
- Opposing political power.
- 1968, Doris Appel Graber, Public opinion, the President, and foreign policy:
- Despite the antipower outlook that pervaded American culture, Presidents, beginning with Washington, felt that their conscience, tempered by the advice of their associates, must be their main guide.
- 2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182:
- This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of the Congo River.
Noun
editantipower (countable and uncountable, plural antipowers)
- Freedom from domination by political power.
- 2005, Adriana Elisa Parra Bermúdez, Values Based Education in Community Development: A Colombian Case Study:
- Withholding knowledge in a situation where it could be useful can be considered antipower. The sharing of knowledge only increases its power.
- 2015, Barbara Buckinx, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, Timothy Waligore, Domination and Global Political Justice:
- Institutions can play a role here too in helping empower individuals to act as important agents of antipower, through allocating resources to individuals that help foster their political skills and capacities […]