Institutionalizing place: Materiality and meaning in Boston's North End

Candace Jones; Ju Young Lee; Taehyun Lee

doi:10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B016

Institutionalizing place: Materiality and meaning in Boston's North End

Candace Jones, Ju Young Lee, Taehyun Lee

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Abstract

Microfoundations of institutions are central to constructing place—the interplay of location, meaning, and material form. Since only a few institutional studies bring materiality to the fore to examine the processes of place-making, how material forms interact with people to institutionalize or de-institutionalize the meaning of place remains a black box. Through an inductive and historical study of Boston’s North End neighborhood, we show how locally situated churches that symbolically encoded multivocality shape the institutionalized meaning of the North End as a place

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-239
Journal	Research in the Sociology of Organizations
Volume	65B
Early online date	25 Nov 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B016
Publication status	Published - 25 Nov 2019

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microfoundations of institutions
place
materiality
material forms
meaning
historical analysis

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This is the accepted version of the following chapter: Jones, C., Lee, J. and Lee, T. (2019), "Institutionalizing Place: Materiality and Meaning in Boston’s North End", Haack, P., Sieweke, J. and Wessel, L. (Ed.) Microfoundations of Institutions (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 65B), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 211-239., which has been published in final form at https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X2019000065B016/full/html
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