The phrase "activist rather" is not correct and usable in written English as it lacks context and clarity.
It may be intended to compare or contrast two ideas, but without additional information, its meaning is unclear.
Example: "She identifies as an activist rather than a passive observer in social issues."
Alternatives: "activist instead" or "activist as opposed to".
That's because the former senator has the instincts of an activist, rather than of a president or statesman.
I'm willing to believe all these things, but in the end Geldof is an activist rather than a strategist.
There is more glamour working as an animal rights activist rather than as a mental health rights activist.
Worthy as these may be, they play to the view of Labour as the party of the underdog and hand-wringing activist rather than one uniting around key messages, embodied in the figure of the leader.
The Republican pollster and message strategist Frank Luntz, who is close to Cantor, Ryan, and McCarthy but has feuded with Boehner, says that the Young Guns "hope that he will be a conservative activist, rather than just a conservative traffic cop.
For this, I think Miles positioned himself as an activist, rather than a journalist or a blogger.
The book's detractors were generally polemicists or activists rather than artists.
As for Mr Abeid, he remains in custody in Mauritania, which seemingly prefers to crack down on anti-slavery activists, rather than slavery itself.
The Socialist Workers' party and their newspaper sellers have long been a recognisable, and – to other activists – rather irritating presence at leftwing events.
There is evidence that the activists rather than the leader may be out of step with the people who might vote for them.
But she absorbed its message, and in this she embodies the political version of crowd-sourcing, in which some segment of activists — rather than a party or think tank or image consultant — provides the answer to the fundamental question of what a politician hopes to accomplish.
