Countercapital
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Countercapital is a noun meaning A city other than the official capital that serves as a base of power and influence.
Meaning
A city other than the official capital that serves as a base of power and influence.
More Meanings
- Possessions, knowledge, and resources that support an alternative to the dominant culture
Example Sentences
In the last third of the century Medelh'n in fact, as well as in the minds of the antioqueños, stood as an economically based countercapital in the west.
From November 1920 on, Sun lived in Canton, which was becoming in the minds of many Chinese a countercapital to the republic's nominal capital at Peking.
Hacker spaces dot the unofficial landscapes of San Francisco and Oakland, nurturing support for WikiLeaks and other countercultural (and counter-capital) uses of high tech.
Further, this imported 'counter-habitas' and 'cultural counter-capital' frictionally appreciates as pupils' experiences of schooling penetrate a system which depreciates their cultural currency.
Word Forms
- countercapitals
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include capital, capitol, dependency, center, subheadquarters, chiefery.
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