Rituals of critique and institutional maintenance at the United Nations climate change summits
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Microfoundations of Institutions. ed. / Patrick Haack; Jost Sieweke; Lauri Wessel. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. p. 23-40 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations; Vol. 65B).
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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 -