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Making Sense of Things: Access and the Therapeutic Turn in Museum Gardens and Galleries

Description:

This project examines the uneven adoption of therapeutic initiatives within the organizational field of American museums to ask: How do people frame museum-going as “good” for visitors’ health? Existing research on legitimation processes would predict cultural institutions respond similarly to pressures for greater accountability from their external environments, or resist...

Keyword:

disability, senses, therapy, accessibility, art museums, and botanical gardens

Subject:

Sociology

Creator:

Gemma Mangione

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

02/20/2018

Date Modified:

12/20/2019

Date Created:

2016-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation