antipower

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ power

Adjective

antipower (comparative more antipower, superlative most antipower)

1. 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

antipower (countable and uncountable, plural antipowers)

1. 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 […]