Micropolitical

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to micropolitics.

    "Blacks may have invented and used the term poor white trash as an act of symbolic violence and micropolitical protest, but it was literate, middle-class and elite whites who invested its meaning with social power, granting it the powers of social stigma and prejudice and enforcing the discriminatory effects with regard to labor."

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"Blacks may have invented and used the term poor white trash as an act of symbolic violence and micropolitical protest, but it was literate, middle-class and elite whites who invested its meaning with social power, granting it the powers of social stigma and prejudice and enforcing the discriminatory effects with regard to labor."

Etymology

From micro- + political.

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