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A Non-discursive practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an institutional field, a set of events, practices, and political decisions, a sequence of economic processes that also involve demographic fluctuations, techniques of public assistance, manpower needs, different levels of unemployment.

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A Non-discursive practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠institutions, political events, economic practices and processes.

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A Non-discursive practice (n.) surrounds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠more concrete discursive practices (i.e. Economics, gender, political institutions, events, demographics, unemployment).

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A Non-discursive practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the institutions, social relations, and political relations against which the autonomous layer of discourses can come to make sense.

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A Non-discursive practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the non-representational, experiential side of things (torturing the body, disciplining the body) whereas discourse is the social constructionist side (e.g. The historically new object called 'delinquency').

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A Non-discursive practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the on-the ground monitoring of people, disciplining, torturing. . . Whereas a discursive practice involves arguments, on books, science.