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  • noun The use of formal and informal power by individuals and groups to achieve their goals within organizations, as opposed to macropolitics.

Etymologies

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micro- +‎ politics

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Examples

  • The sources of resistance to these trends are increasingly found at the level of what Foucault would call “micropolitics.”

    Critical Theory Bohman, James 2005

  • They were to look up from their work only sporadically and wanted no part of what one of them characterized as "chicken-shit micropolitics" from any quarter.

    A Special Supplement: The Old School at The New School Diamond, Stanley 1970

  • It was the trait that kept him out of Todos Santos's micropolitics: you tried to manipulate him, and suddenly he was somewhere else, redesigning your closet space while you were trying to get someone fired.

    Boing Boing Andrea James 2010

  • If you're interested in the micropolitics of New Jersey's marriage debate, you'll care that the Senate's bill supporters are now holding off on a full Senate vote - and will wait for the State Assembly to pass the bill.

    Queerty 2009

  • But if we read Tretyakov's activity against the backdrop of this ideological struggle, Raunig's claim that 'Tretyakov's micropolitics' created a laboratory in the kholkoz 'waiting for concatenation' and substantially external to 'Stalin's molar apparatus', becomes extremely problematic. xvi We shall now see why.

    Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET mute 2008

  • Mann, a public-radio reporter, produces one of the best books to date on the putative red-blue divide by focusing on interpersonal micropolitics (much of the book consists of a running dialogue with his more conservative brother) as well as macro trends that often get left out of the debate (the fact, say, that atheists and agnostics are the fastest-growing religious groups in the country) and that complicate the dominant perception of politicized evangelical hordes rising in lockstep.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • Mann, a public-radio reporter, produces one of the best books to date on the putative red-blue divide by focusing on interpersonal micropolitics (much of the book consists of a running dialogue with his more conservative brother) as well as macro trends that often get left out of the debate (the fact, say, that atheists and agnostics are the fastest-growing religious groups in the country) and that complicate the dominant perception of politicized evangelical hordes rising in lockstep.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • Mann, a public-radio reporter, produces one of the best books to date on the putative red-blue divide by focusing on interpersonal micropolitics (much of the book consists of a running dialogue with his more conservative brother) as well as macro trends that often get left out of the debate (the fact, say, that atheists and agnostics are the fastest-growing religious groups in the country) and that complicate the dominant perception of politicized evangelical hordes rising in lockstep.

    Cover to Cover 2006

  • - which Raunig calls an 'orgiastic state apparatus' - in which no unified party, government or ideological line was able to fully override the micropolitics of local committees and assemblies. vii

    Mute magazine - Culture and politics after the net - CULTURE AND POLITICS AFTER THE NET mute 2008

  • His brisk prose delights as he marshals the latest theoretical and empirical literature, along with revealing an array of new sources for uncovering the interstices of whiteness and civility, honor and power, disclosing the micropolitics of force behind gentlemanly virtue. "

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

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