Performing Legitimacy

Håkon Larsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA.

• Preface.- Acknowledgement.- 1 A cultural approach to studies of arts and media organizations.- 2 Performing legitimacy as civil opera houses.- 3 Legitimation work in state funded arts organizations.- 4 The crisis of public service broadcasting reconsidered.- 5 The legitimation rhetoric of public service broadcasters.- 6 Dynamics of legitimation work.