micropolitical

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English

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Etymology

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micro- +‎ political

Adjective

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micropolitical (comparative more micropolitical, superlative most micropolitical)

  1. Of or pertaining to micropolitics.
    • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 42:
      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.