From Legitimation to Alegitimation: Inviting Posthuman and Prehuman Ontologies into Theories of Institutions
Résumé
Legitimation is a core topic of Management and Organization Studies. Actually, it is a very judgemental one, and in that sense it is human-centered. In this chapter, we try to explore posthuman and prehuman views of legitimation and alegitimation. We explore a decentered, material process in which, paradoxically, only de-legitimation makes sense. We illustrate this idea with three scenes of the movie The Passenger.
Keywords: legitimacy; legitimation; alegitimation; institutionalism; subjectivation; materiality; time;
posthumanism.