ac·tiv·ism

(ăk′tə-vĭz′əm)

The use of direct, often confrontational action, such as a demonstration or strike, in opposition to or support of a cause.

ac·tiv·ist′ic adj.

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activistic

(ˌæktɪˈvɪstɪk)

adj

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) of or relating to activism

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Adj.

activistic - advocating or engaged in activism

activist

active - disposed to take action or effectuate change; "a director who takes an active interest in corporate operations"; "an active antagonism"; "he was active in drawing attention to their grievances"

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References in periodicals archive

(4) "(...) the activistic collectives that are currently trying to shape the future of comics in their own way.

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE HUMOR IN SWEDISH FEMINIST COMICS FROM THE WORK OF NINA HEMMINGSSON, MALIN BILLER AND LIV STRONQUIST/UM BREVE PANORAMA DO HUMOR NOS QUADRINHOS FEMINISTAS SUECOS A PARTIR DA OBRA DE NINA HEMMINGSSON, MALIN BILLER E LIV STRONQUIST

That's "my, let's say, activistic side," sighs Panayiotis, quickly adding that he's by no means a major figure in the activist community -- but that's one dot he grudgingly agrees to connect, the link between his interest in individual bullying and societal bullying, oppression, call it what you will.

Quiet professor with controversial voice

Beirut's street art is both beautiful, thought-provoking and activistic. And it's not just found on walls, but on staircases, gas stations and cover-ups for construction sites too.

Alley Art in Beirut

Thomas Merton, renowned Catholic theologian and monk, speaking of Srila Prabhupada's writings, wrote that, "Swami Bhaktivedanta brings to the West a salutary reminder that our highly activistic and one-sided culture is faced with a crisis that may end in self-destruction because it lacks the inner depth of an authentic metaphysical consciousness."

ISKCON Turns 50

He accepts Peter Lake's definition of puritanism as "an activistic style of piety" (5, 13-14), and also follows Lake and John Morrill in seeing it as an identity forged through a "cultural process" (13).

Leif Dixon. Practical Predestinarians in England

Nesbit would deny it, as did Cornel West in his classic The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism (1989), in which he stressed Dewey's reconciliation of the "voluntaristic, amelioristic, and activistic" Emersonian tradition with the historical consciousness cultivated in nineteenth-century Europe.

Art and experience: christopher s. wood on molly nesbit's the pragmatism in the history of art

As these lyrics suggest, the heritage of the Jewish labor movement can be seen in today's Yiddishland not only in progressive politics and the activistic belief that music might help make the world a better place, but also in the importance placed on fostering shared community and group identity.

And We're All Brothers: Singing in Yiddish in Contemporary North America

Expanded, activistic conceptions of representation help refute charges that representative government fosters citizen passivity or unreasoned policy-making (Plotke, 1997; Urbinati, 2006).

The impasses of ecological representation