Definition of "antipower"
antipower
adjective
comparative more antipower, superlative most antipower
Quotations
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.
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, page 182
noun
countable and uncountable, plural antipowers
Freedom from domination by political power.
Quotations
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 […]
2015, Barbara Buckinx, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, Timothy Waligore, Domination and Global Political Justice