Gemma Mangione
Biographic Data
| ID | 291061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gemma Mangione |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gemma |
| FAMILY NAME | Mangione |
| SIGNATURE | MANGIONE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical circles and regional reputations
The art and nature of health
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a major metropolitan art museum and botanic garden, this article considers the practical accomplishment of American museums' 'health turn' by tracing how museum staff develop therapeutic programmes for visitors with disabilities. In doing so, it considers one of medical sociology's fundamental theoretical questions - how ideologies of health order social life - in an unconventional empirical set…
More than myth-busting
In April, I organized a “teach-in” responding to the proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Although my current research
Making Sense of Things
Studies of museum behaviour in sociology often examine how external environments shape organizational practice. Through an ethnographic study, this article considers programmes for visitors with disabilities at a major metropolitan art museum and botanical garden to ask how 'sensory conventions' vary across museums, and with what effects. I trace how museum staff construct the aesthetic experience of art and nature differently to shape how visito…
Access to what? Alzheimer's disease and esthetic sense-making in the contemporary art museum
Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space
Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space
The art and nature of health
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a major metropolitan art museum and botanic garden, this article considers the practical accomplishment of American museums' 'health turn' by tracing how museum staff develop therapeutic programmes for visitors with disabilities. In doing so, it considers one of medical sociology's fundamental theoretical questions - how ideologies of health order social life - in an unconventional empirical set…
Making Sense of Things
Studies of museum behaviour in sociology often examine how external environments shape organizational practice. Through an ethnographic study, this article considers programmes for visitors with disabilities at a major metropolitan art museum and botanical garden to ask how 'sensory conventions' vary across museums, and with what effects. I trace how museum staff construct the aesthetic experience of art and nature differently to shape how visito…
Access to what? Alzheimer's disease and esthetic sense-making in the contemporary art museum
Access to what? Alzheimer's disease and esthetic sense-making in the contemporary art museum
Objects, Words, and Bodies in Space
More than myth-busting
In April, I organized a “teach-in” responding to the proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Although my current research
Making Sense of Things
Studies of museum behaviour in sociology often examine how external environments shape organizational practice. Through an ethnographic study, this article considers programmes for visitors with disabilities at a major metropolitan art museum and botanical garden to ask how 'sensory conventions' vary across museums, and with what effects. I trace how museum staff construct the aesthetic experience of art and nature differently to shape how visito…
The art and nature of health
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews at a major metropolitan art museum and botanic garden, this article considers the practical accomplishment of American museums' 'health turn' by tracing how museum staff develop therapeutic programmes for visitors with disabilities. In doing so, it considers one of medical sociology's fundamental theoretical questions - how ideologies of health order social life - in an unconventional empirical set…
Critical circles and regional reputations
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)