0 the act of trying to destroy or damage an established system or government:
He was found guilty of subversion and imprisoned.
1 an attempt to change or weaken a government or to remove it from power by working secretly within it
Alongside these daily acts of subversion, however, the elite faced the efforts of indigenous communities to construct an alternative modernity.
For the memorialist, memory is consoling, and he uses its consolation for himself as a tool in the subversion of the memory of others.
The model of subversion and containment relies upon a spatial metaphor of enclosure to explain how ideology is (re)inscribed upon individuals despite their resistance.
The administration had to change the rules repeatedly to avoid the subversion of deliberative forums by particularistic interests.
For those listening to such ideas, however, such phraseology could be used to sustain political subversion of imperial dominance.
This is what is meant by the term 'modal subversion'.
As an area for future research, one might ask how the modal subversion is perceived as 'subversive'.
Are terms like "subversion" and "anger" necessary components of feminism?
