The Politics of
Apoliticism: Political Trials in Vichy France, 1940-1942
By way of argument the writer seems to be advocating the introduction of independence and
apoliticism of bureaucracy by the incoming Imran Khan government.
As an early member told me, they are fed up with the Balinese people's passivity, enforced
apoliticism and the government's sales policy.
The FCF called upon the right-leaning faithful to overcome
apoliticism, "to match the demands of faith with the pressures seemingly inherent in the political arena" and to overcome the "almost instinctive reaction [...] to hide from political responsibility lest one contradicts the call of holiness." (11) And like Brazil's conservative Catholics and its staunchest authoritarians (Cowan 2016a; 2016b), Weyrich and the FCF popularized the central goal of fighting the "leftward drift" of the Catholic Church and of Christians in general.
In 1960s Japan, Suga and other artists affiliated with Mono-ha were accused of
apoliticism by fellow classmates caught up in the era's turbulent student protests (catalyzed, in part, by a renewal of the US-Japan Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security in 1960).
Much has been made of the KOL'S distaste for politics, but too many commentators incorrectly conflate non-partisanship with
apoliticism. British Knights made alliances with officials such as Liberal MP Robert Bontine Cunnighame Graham, or elected their own to various national and local offices.
The churches that emerged from the Protestant missions inherited an
apoliticism that prevented them from clearly appreciating their role in the processes of democratization and social change that nevertheless took place in the decades that followed.
Rabil, Robert G., Salafism in Lebanon: From
Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism, Georgetown University Press, Washington d.
However, if this
apoliticism applies to the human youth subcultures that form the backdrop for the action in Clare's and Marr's books, these texts are concerned precisely with the political machinations of the supernatural realm into which their girl protagonists are drawn.