A revista inglesa, Museum & Society, acaba de publicar Sociology in Museums, um dossier especial que explora as intersecções entre a sociologia e os museus. Os editores deste dossier são Gordon Fyfe (Keele University), que é também co-editor da revista, e Paul Jones (Liverpool University). Sem surpresas, a obra The Love of Art ([1969] 1991) de Pierre Bourdieu e Alain Darbel continua a suscitar olhares e a desencadear interrogações à luz do séc. XXI.

Museum & Society é uma publicação electrónica da Universidade de Leicester. Afirma-se como revista interdisciplinar sobre museologia. Lançada em 2003, a responsabilidade da gestão da revista é partilha por 11 co-editores de várias universidades.

Disponível online: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/museumsociety

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Março 2016. Volume 14, n.º 1 | Conteúdos:

Introduction: Sociology and Museums: Visitors, Policy, Knowledge
Gordon Fyfe and Paul Jones

Sociology of Museums

Seeing and Being Seen: The Multimodality of Museum Spectatorship
Dimitra Christidou, Sophia Diamantopoulou

Making Sense of Things: Constructing Aesthetic Experience in Museum Gardens and Galleries
Gemma Mangione

The Habitus of Heritage: a Discussion of Bourdieu’s Ideas for Visitor Studies in Heritage and Museums
Bella Dicks

Place and Cultural Capital: Art Museum Visitors across Space
Laurie Hanquinet

Exhibiting the Nation: Indigenousness in Chile’s National Museums
Magdalena Gil

Cultural Policy

Exploring the gap between museum policy and practice: a comparative analysis of Scottish, English and Welsh local authority museum services
Vikki McCall

Structure, Agency and Museum Policies
Clive Gray

Productive Nation? Museums, Cultural Policy and Australia’s Productivity Narrative
Ian McShane

Museums of Sociology

Using the Local to Tell a Global Story: How the Peabody Essex Museum Became a World Class Museum
Peggy Levitt, Katherine Cali

‘The rats are still with us’: Constructing Everyday Life at the Anacostia Museum in Washington, DC
Robyn Autry

Staging Migration (in) Museums: A Reflection on Exhibition Design Practices for the Representation of Migration in European Contemporary Museums
Francesca Lanz

Sociology, Buildings, Objects

Curating actor-network theory: testing object-oriented sociology in the science museum
Laurie Waller

Museum Architecture Matters
Paul Jones, Suzanne Macleod

Review Article

Museum Studies, Area Studies, and Museums in China
Elizabeth Lawrence

Book Reviews

Paul Basu and Wayne Modest (eds.), Museums, Heritage and International Development, New York: Routledge, 2015, hardcover £90.00, pp. ix+345.
Amy Clarke

Jenny Kidd, Museums in the New Mediascape: Transmedia, Participation, Ethics, Farnham: Ashgate, 2014, hardcover £ 65.00, pp. ix+166.
Amy Hetherington

Freda Matassa, Organizing Exhibitions. A handbook for museums, libraries and archives, London: Facet Publishing, 2014, paperback pp. xxviii+302.
Sara Wear