counterinstitutionalization

plural counterinstitutionalizations · alternative counter-institutionalization · alternative counterinstitutionalisation · alternative counter-institutionalisation

1. uncountableusuallyThe process or outcome of creating alternative institutions or systems that function independently of, or in opposition to, existing dominant institutions.

   Historical counterinstitutionalizations, such as worker-run factories, demonstrate the viability of decentralized models.

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   States increasingly contest international institutions by the strategy that can best be labeled "counter-institutionalization."

   2018 March 9, Michael Zürn, chapter 7.6, in A Theory of Global Governance, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Conclusion, page 192

   Movements by individuals, organizations, and states have begun to collectively challenge the high-input lawn, and efforts at counterinstitutionalization are gaining momentum.

   2016 April 26, Allison Harnish, Nora Haenn, Richard Wilk, editors, The Environment in Anthropology, second edition, New York University Press, →ISBN, Resistance and Counterinstitutionalization of the Lawn, page 165

   The above considerations pave the ground for another consequence. Counter-institutionalisation describes efforts of those discontent with the current state of the GG system to change it instead of leaving it altogether.

   2022 May 31, Yannick Poullie, chapter 3.1, in National Action Plans in the Global Governance of Business and Human Rights, Nomos Verlag, →ISBN, Counter-institutionalisation, page 38