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- Title
Recycling Problems and Modernizing the Solution: Doing Institutional Maintenance Work on Swedish Public Service Television.
- Authors
Norbäck, Maria
- Abstract
This article investigates the role of history and heritage in institutional maintenance work. Based on a study of collaborative production of public service TV programs in Sweden, I analyze the program makers' rhetorical work to construct and justify meanings and interpretations. By drawing on the old but often overlooked understanding that institutions are "permanent" solutions to "permanent" problems, I discuss what problems the program makers argue that public service TV solves in contemporary Sweden, and the work of rhetorically constructing and justifying these problems in relation to everyday practices of making programs. This study adds to our understanding of how actors that inhabit and enact an institution can use its history and legacy as an interpretative resource in their work to maintain the institution, and how this process may affect the meanings ascribed to the institution.
- Subjects
PUBLIC service television programs; COLLECTIVE action; RECYCLING &; politics; HISTORY; MODERNIZATION theory
- Publication
Journal of Management Inquiry, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 1, p94
- ISSN
1056-4926
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1056492617712893