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discursive formations  

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  • Discursive formations are relatively autonomous configurations of power-knowledge which have sedimented and acquired a dominant societal or field-specific role. They are usually overly simplistically depicted in the literature as ‘authorless’ textual discourses of language and practice which in their decentredness are understood differently from ‘top-down’ ideologies based on the more rigid Marxist base-superstructure model. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies; Discursive Formations]

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