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Fragments and links: the organisational actor-world of the Harry Potter phenomenon

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  • Alexandra Bristow
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2007
<mark>Journal</mark>Culture and Organization
Issue number4
Volume13
Number of pages13
Pages (from-to)313-325
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The article seeks to develop an Actor‐Network Theory perspective on the relationship between organization and literature by focusing on the Harry Potter phenomenon. The latter is seen as an example of how contemporary popular literature does not stop at itself, but rather supersedes itself by spinning its own truly impressive organizational actor‐network. This industrious industrial entanglement challenges what may be called the ‘disembodied’ conceptualization of literature—the conceptualization that is centred on the contents of works of fiction alone. When the contents of the literary texts are decentred in that they are taken as but one (however important) actor of the actor‐world that comes to be known by their name, other actors become more visible that help to conceptualize Harry Potter as an organizational, as much as a literary, phenomenon.