micropatria

English

Etymology

Back-formation from micropatriology (“study of micronationalism”). Analysable as micro- +‎ Latin patria (“country”), literally "microcountry".

Noun

micropatria (plural micropatrias or micropatria)

1. (nonstandard) Micronation.
   • 2012 June, Fiona McConnell, Terri Ann Moreau, Jason Dittmer, “Mimicking state diplomacy: The legitimizing strategies of unofficial diplomacies”, in Geoforum‎^[1], volume 43, number 4, Elsevier, page 811:

     In addition, and as a result of practices of intra-diplomacy, micropatrias collectively produce digital international communities in which member nations share concerns, consider possibilities and practice statehood.

   • 2014 September 21, Terri Ann Moreau, Subversive Sovereignty: Parodic Representations of Micropatrias Enclaved by the United Kingdom‎^[2] (PhD thesis), University of London, page 48:

     By fulfilling the convention's requirements, micropatrias play with statehood and sovereignty. Their actions illustrate the exclusivity of sovereignty in terms of hegemonic political norms derived from the political power of dominant actors […] and highlight the complicated relationship of recognition and power.

   • 2014 November 1, Adam Grydehøj, “Captain Calamity's Sovereign State of Forvik: Micronations and the Failure of Cultural Nationalism”, in Shima‎^[3], volume 8, number 1, page 34:

     A micronation (also known as micropatria [author's italics]) is a place that claims to be a sovereign state or autonomous political entity yet possesses a very limited (or non-existent) resident population and is not recognised by sovereign states (apart from other micronations).

   • 2022 July, James Riding, Carl T. Dahlman, “Montage space: Borderlands, micronations, terra nullius, and the imperialism of the geographical imagination”, in Dialogues in Human Geography‎^[4], volume 12, number 2, Sage Publishing, page 294:

     State-building for 'micropatria' such as Liberland often leads their creators to fashion statist iconography and mimic the legitimizing practices that recognized and unrecognized states undertake.