And in particular, when that desire shifted "from an occasional, isolated, individual fantasy to a demonstrably widespread social imperative," when photography became what Michel Foucault calls a "discursive practice."

He prefers the term 'discursive practice'.

This book contributed to family media studies through its focus on the discursive practices of parents.

The early opposition between writing and history which enabled a critique from an outer limit has thus been replaced by a dissension within Foucault's own discursive practice.

"Ideological Diversionism", as used by Castro defined the discursive practice of subjects who appropriated Marxist and communist rhetoric without the "true revolutionary commitment".

A discursive practice, therefore, also resists any attempt at offering a total description, a point where meaning can be contained or exhausted.

Her overriding ethico-political concern has been for the site occupied by the subaltern, especially subaltern women, both in discursive practices and in institutions as much as Western cultures.

In her opinion, the central discursive practices of the Enlightenment Republic of Letters were polite conversation and letter writing, and its defining social institution was the Parisian salon.

Power itself is produced and maintained through ideology, through discursive practices.

The UNISIST model can be used to define relations between various kinds of scientific and scholarly documents and to compare various domains and their discursive practices.