TY - CHAP

T1 - Rituals of critique and institutional maintenance at the United Nations climate change summits

AU - Islam, Gazi

AU - Rüling, Charles-Clemens

AU - Schüßler, Elke

PY - 2019/11/25

Y1 - 2019/11/25

N2 - Particularly in governance and policy processes, critique is embedded in highly institutionalized formats. In this chapter, the authors apply Boltanski’s concept of critical tests to examine accepted forms of expression in the context of an institutionalized policy setting, the annual Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The authors find that different policy actors’ uses of critique reflect embedded field positions and interests. While marginal actors drew upon existential tests to construct radical critique, the highly ritualized performance of critique called into question its efficacy in promoting change within the overall structure of a highly institutionalized event. The authors discuss inroads to studying the relations between critique, power, and microfoundations of institutions.

AB - Particularly in governance and policy processes, critique is embedded in highly institutionalized formats. In this chapter, the authors apply Boltanski’s concept of critical tests to examine accepted forms of expression in the context of an institutionalized policy setting, the annual Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The authors find that different policy actors’ uses of critique reflect embedded field positions and interests. While marginal actors drew upon existential tests to construct radical critique, the highly ritualized performance of critique called into question its efficacy in promoting change within the overall structure of a highly institutionalized event. The authors discuss inroads to studying the relations between critique, power, and microfoundations of institutions.

KW - Management studies

KW - Ritual

KW - critique

KW - institutional work

KW - institutional change

KW - institutional maintenance

KW - ritual theory

KW - field-configuring events

KW - climate change

KW - Ritual

KW - Critique

KW - institutional work

KW - ritual theory

KW - field-configuring events

KW - climate change

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/2fdaa5cb-819e-376e-b322-a03e8873dd35/

U2 - 10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b004

DO - 10.1108/s0733-558x2019000065b004

M3 - Chapter

SN - 978-1-78769-128-5

T3 - Research in the Sociology of Organizations

SP - 23

EP - 40

BT - Microfoundations of Institutions

A2 - Haack, Patrick

A2 - Sieweke, Jost

A2 - Wessel, Lauri

PB - Emerald Publishing Limited

ER -