Commanding Materials
(Re)Legitimating Authority in the Context of Multi-Disciplinary Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2321371 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Latimer (0000-0001-7418-7515, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 757-775 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0038038504045863 |
| OpenAlex | W2078596654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 24 |
The article explores some specific consequences of a 'crisis of legitimation' for relations of power. Drawing together sociological concerns over power/knowledge with anthropological understandings about the place of materials in the ordering of relations, the article analyses how authority is legitimated in the context of multiple possibilities for interpretation and conduct. The site of exploration is an ethnography of multi-disciplinary work in a British hospital trust. Developing the notion of 'extension' the article describes how hospital consultants align social practices and cultural materials to (re)accomplish asymmetrical power relations. The article revisits Lyotard's (1984) ideas about 'strong moves' and ends by arguing for greater sociological attention to the place of materials in the ordering of relations
Context (archaeology) · Discipline · Epistemology · Ethnography · Extension (predicate logic) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Legitimation · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Anthropology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Law · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Psychological Perspectives on Legitimacy and Legitimation
Listening for the Voices of Animals
The fluid hospital
Membership categorization, culture and norms in action
Experiments in interdisciplinarity1
Rebirthing the Clinic
Rewriting Bodies, Portraiting Persons? The New Genetics, the Clinic and the Figure of the Human
Uprooting Class? Culture, World-Making and Reform
Introduction
The Magic of Mundane Objects
Driving the Social
Unbuttoning Normalcy - On Cosmopolitical Events
The Power of Corridors
Partial Organization
Knowing Body, Knowing other
The performance of citizen's and organisational authority
In/Exclusion in the Clinic
A community of critics? Thoughts on new knowledge
Afterword
The dispositions of things
Diagnosis, Dysmorphology, and the Family
Interpreting qualitative data
On the Pragmatics of Social Interaction
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Frameworks of Power
Discourse and Text
Collective Cognition and Collaborative Work
The Interpretive Turn
The Interpretation of Cultures
The Postmodern Condition
Story, Narrative and Team Work
Technology is Society Made Durable
The Consumption View of Self
All-Consuming Passions
Older People in Hospital
The Dark at the Bottom of the Stairs
Managing an Uncertain Illness Trajectory in Old Age
Giving Patients a Future
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |