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micropatria

micropatria noun: micronation.

Noun

micropatria (plural micropatrias or micropatria)

  1. (nonstandard) Micronation.
    • In addition, and as a result of practices of intra-diplomacy, micropatrias collectively produce digital international communities in which member nations share concerns, consider possibilities and practice statehood.2012 June, Fiona McConnell, Terri Ann Moreau, Jason Dittmer, “Mimicking state diplomacy: The legitimizing strategies of unofficial diplomacies”, in Geoforum, volume 43, number 4, Elsevier, page 811
    • By fulfilling the convention's requirements, micropatrias play with statehood and sovereignty. Their actions illustrate the exclusivity of sovereignty in terms of hegemonic political norms derived from the political power of dominant actors […] and highlight the complicated relationship of...2014 September 21, Terri Ann Moreau, Subversive Sovereignty: Parodic Representations of Micropatrias Enclaved by the United Kingdom (PhD thesis), University of London, page 48

Examples of micropatria in a sentence

  • By fulfilling the convention's requirements, micropatrias play with statehood and sovereignty.2014 September 21, Terri Ann Moreau, Subversive Sovereignty: Parodic Representations of Micropatrias Enclaved by the United Kingdom (PhD...
  • State-building for 'micropatria' such as Liberland often leads their creators to fashion statist iconography and mimic the legitimizing practices that recognized and unrecognized states undertake.2022 July, James Riding, Carl T. Dahlman, “Montage space: Borderlands, micronations, terra nullius, and the imperialism of the geographical...

Forms of micropatria

pluralmicropatrias
pluralmicropatria

Origin of micropatria

Back-formation from micropatriology (“study of micronationalism”). Analysable as micro- + Latin patria (“country”), literally "microcountry".

Questions about micropatria

What does micropatria mean?
Micropatria means micronation.
How do you use micropatria in a sentence?
By fulfilling the convention's requirements, micropatrias play with statehood and sovereignty.
What part of speech is micropatria?
Micropatria is a noun.
What is the plural of micropatria?
The plural of micropatria is micropatrias.

Words near micropatria in the dictionary

  1. micropathological
  2. micropathologically
  3. micropathologist
  4. micropathologists
  5. micropathology
  6. micropatria
  7. micropatrias
  8. micropatriological
  9. micropatriologist
  10. micropatriologists
  11. micropatriology

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