At the Intersection of Materiality, Organizational Legitimacy and Institutional Logics: A Study of Campus Tours

Abstract

, the 4th Organizations, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) workshop in June 2014 and the Workshop "Giving visual and material form to ideas, identity and imagination: architecture, urbanism and sustainable construction" in May 2014. We thank all participants for their precious feedbacks and comments.

You’re Grounded! Toward a Theory of Enactive Legitimation, Materiality and Practice

“…These scholars have posited that artefacts, digital artefacts, space and time, and embodiment are all relevant to legitimation. For instance, a company may legitimate its existence and activities by building an impressive headquarters or occupying prestigious and history laden premises (De Vaujany & Vaast, 2013;De Vaujany, Varlander, & Vaast, 2019); ideas become legitimated by acquiring material status (Cartel & Boxenbaum, 2019); institutions are inscribed in bodies and reproduced through them (Althusser, 1971). We extend their work by proposing a novel view of the nature of material agency and how it may operate in legitimation processes.…”

Breaking the plaster: Making do with the fragility of the body

“…for framing and valorizing walking as individualist and heroic, usually linked to masculine bodies (Heddon & Turner, 2012: 224). Walking has also been discussed as a useful tool in affective pedagogies (Beyes & Steyaert, 2020), in ethnography and the spatial exploration of practices (O'Neill & Roberts, 2019), how places are constructed by walking (Springgay & Truman, 2017), or the institutional and material constitution of legitimacy (De Vaujany, Varlaander & Vaast, 2019). Some critical accounts explain the relational potential of walking as method for knowledge development (Anderson, 2004).…”