Visiting while Latinx: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latinx Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu15618198060036792021-08-03T07:11:33Z Visiting while Latinx: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latinx Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums Betancourt, Veronica Elena Art Education Ethnic Studies Hispanic American Studies Hispanic Americans Minority and Ethnic Groups Museum Studies Museums Art museums museum studies intersectionality intersectional visitor studies Latino studies Latinx studies subjectivity belonging decolonization culturally responsive encyclopedic art museum Latinx Latinx visitor studies inclusion experience This study addresses two research questions: What are Latinx visitors’ experiences of their conflicted subjectivity, in experiencing both enjoyment and alienation, within the context of encyclopedic art museums? Furthermore, how do Latinx visitors enact belonging within encyclopedic art museums? These questions redress a gap in the museum literature that discounts the impact of race and ethnicity on visitor experience and subjectivity in favor of universalized models of visitor learning and motivation. The study draws from the theorization of Latinx scholars and artists who have noted the dual experience of pleasure and alienation due to the museum’s inattention to their racial and ethnic identity to further a culturally responsive study of Latinx visitor experience. Through this intervention, I advance theorization of how Latinxs both participate in, and contest, the Eurocentric narratives of national heritage that are proposed by encyclopedic art museums. I argue that the conflicted subjectivity experienced by Latinx visitors to encyclopedic art museums is a manifestation of an epistemic and ontological conflict: the ways in which encyclopedic art museums represent Latinidad does not accord with the ways in which some Latinx visitors figure their own subjectivity. By exploring how Latinx museum visitors experience this epistemic and ontological conflict the dissertation offers practical and theoretical guidelines for institutional change that will foster museum visitor inclusion and work toward the decolonization of the encyclopedic art museum. I also question the significance of belonging as a museum aim for its visitors, as well as suggest that the topic requires further study, and propose that welcome might be a more relevant type of experience for Latinx visitors. 2019-09-16 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1561819806003679 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1561819806003679 restricted--full text unavailable until 2024-08-05 This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Art Education Ethnic Studies Hispanic American Studies Hispanic Americans Minority and Ethnic Groups Museum Studies Museums Art museums museum studies intersectionality intersectional visitor studies Latino studies Latinx studies subjectivity belonging decolonization culturally responsive encyclopedic art museum Latinx Latinx visitor studies inclusion experience Betancourt, Veronica Elena Visiting while Latinx: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latinx Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums |
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Betancourt, Veronica Elena |
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Betancourt, Veronica Elena |
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Visiting while Latinx: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latinx Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums |
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Visiting while Latinx: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latinx Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums |
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Visiting while Latinx: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latinx Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums |
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Visiting while Latinx: An Intersectional Analysis of the Experiences of Subjectivity among Latinx Visitors to Encyclopedic Art Museums |
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visiting while latinx: an intersectional analysis of the experiences of subjectivity among latinx visitors to encyclopedic art museums |
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2019 |
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