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Micropolitics
According to the idea of micropolitics, to understand the political sphere it is not enough to study the behavior of large-scale political formations such as the state or the nation, nor is it enough to start from the apparently essential structure and interests of the political individual. To understand politics, we must also attend to the political character of the everyday and see how the texture of day-to-day life produces particular political subjects, with particular patterns of beliefs, habits, affects, desires, and perceptions. Political subjects are formed not just by the state, or the economy, but also by micro-level formations, such as pop culture artifacts, or the organization of the household, as well as the specific and unpredictable interactions between them.
As an explicit concept, micropolitics ...
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