Mark Bhatti
Biographic Data
| ID | 196701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Bhatti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhatti |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Garden Stories: Auto/biography, Gender and Gardening
Life writing in the form of a single garden story is used in this paper to examine the garden as a powerful theme in gendered leisure. I explore the ways in which garden narratives in the form of auto/biography can represent new identities in everyday life. One women's life story is (re)told; about her childhood, her home and family, and her work in the garden. I conclude that life stories contained in the Mass Observation Archive (big and small)…
Peaceful, Pleasant and Private: The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape
This paper uses narrative accounts of private gardens in Britain from the Mass-Observation Archive (MO) to explore ideas of landscape, privacy and attachment that emerge from daily practices and routines in these ordinary domestic spaces. We argue for the domestic garden as a vernacular or ordinary landscape that displays tensions between the private and the public nature of home within ambivalent emotional responses. Extended personal narratives…
Human-Landscape Relations and the Occupation of Space: Experiencing and Expressing Domestic Gardens
A consideration of occupation and space is outlined to advance nonrepresentational thinking about human-landscape relations. Empirical findings are presented from a research project based on data from the Mass Observation Archive relevant to gardens and gardening. These data are analysed to explore how 'ordinary' people (who have contributed to this Archive) express and experience issues concerning their home gardens. Our analysis suggests four d…
A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices
Going public: Landscaping Everyday Life
Gardens are not unusual sites to practise cultural geographies. In an earlier ‘cultural geographies in practice’ Steve Daniels reflected on his work on Art of the Garden, an exhibition at Tate Britain in 2004, which toured to other galleries,1 and a more recent contribution from Laura Lawson recounted public engagement with a community garden site in Chicago.2 This latest account documents a different, practice-based approach to the British garde…
I love being in the garden: Enchanting Encounters in Everyday Life
This paper examines how the domestic garden is experienced as an intimate place in everyday life. With reference to Bachelard we seek to analyse prosaic pleasures and enchanting encounters that are revealed through multi-sensorial engagements and emotional attachments within the social/natural world. In particular we focus on three modalities of the everyday: work or tasks involved in gardening; that is, sensuous and embodied experiences explored…
Heritage, memory and the politics of identity: New perspectives on the cultural landscape – Edited by Niamh Moore and Yvonne Whelan
Women's Leisure and Auto/Biography: Empowerment and Resistance in the Garden
This exploratory paper addresses prevailing conceptualisations of women's agency in leisure. It focuses on the reproduction/resistance framework characteristic of much feminist work. Realising the role of leisure in reproducing oppressive gender relations and the various ways that leisure can also resist them is vital to the continual politicisation of leisure, however we explore whether this framework can always adequately realise the complexiti…
When I'm in the Garden I Can Create My Own Paradise: Homes and Gardens in Later Life
This paper brings together recent work on later life and considers the effects of ageing in relation to participation and interest in gardening. Whilst there is considerable research and literature on issues such as health, housing, and social care, the significance of the garden in process of home-making is less well understood. Using qualitative data from the Mass Observation Data Archive, key physical, psycho-social processes that impact on th…
Home, the culture of nature and meanings of gardens in late modernity
The growth in the provision of gardens has been an important feature of housing in the UK during the 20th century, and yet the significance of the humble domestic garden has been neglected in studies of housing and home. This paper examines the role of the garden in the meaning of home, and draws on theoretical discussions of nature, environmental risk and social uncertainty in late modernity. Secondary empirical data is used to investigate the c…
Whatever Happened to 'Housing and the Environment
This paper takes stock of the housing and environment debate and argues that much of the optimism of the early 1990s has declined. Our own work is reviewed as an example of the limits of previous approaches to analysing contemporary housing and environmental issues. There appears to be a paradox in that housing organisations are now much more environmentally aware; many are developing green housing projects, and yet the development of theory has …
Housing/Futures? The Challenge from Environmentalism
Housing studies have much to contribute to the debate about sustainable futures and yet there has been a lack of critical engagement with environmentalism. This paper sets out to show how the environmental debate can be enhanced by three traditional perspectives found within housing studies; these are: neo-classical economics, Weberian sociology and Marxism. It is suggested that housing researchers have begun to incorporate environmental issues i…
Cultivating Natures: Homes and Gardens in Late Modernity
In this paper we seek to engage with contemporary environmental debates concerning human-nature relations at the everyday level. Our focus is on the domestic or home garden, which we argue is a significant locale for understanding human-nature relations. Secondary empirical data illustrate the growth of gardening and its connections to changes in housing tenure, consumption patterns and the `commodification of nature' by the garden industry. Prim…
I never promised you a rose garden’: Gender, leisure and home-making
This paper explores the importance of contemporary gardens as leisure sites and argues that leisure in general, and the garden in particular, play an important role in the process of homemaking. We also consider how the contemporary garden reflects wider social relations by examining how gender relations imbue gardens and gardening. The gendered meanings of gardens and the garden as a place where gender power relations are played out, are highly …
Environmental Performance as a Competitive Strategy? British Speculative House Builders in the 1990s
The paper examines the potential for improved environmental performance by British housebuilders in light of stricter thermal regulation of new homes. The impact on housebuilders of incorporating energy rating into Building Regulations is considered, together with an assessment of role of ‘energy efficiency’ as a potential business and marketing strategy
Housing and Environmental Policy in the UK
Since the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the development of a ‘green’ housing policy for the UK has received considerable attention. Even though there appears to be a consensus that a more environmentally sustainable housing system is both necessary and desirable, the British government has emphasised market mechanisms to tackle environmental problems. This article critically examines this approach to environmental policy in the UK…
From consumers to prosumers: Housing for a sustainable future
This paper takes a critical look at the recent ‘greening’ of housing. The implications of contemporary environmental perspectives for housing are assessed. An alternative framework that examines housing from an eco‐socialist position is proposed. This perspective implies a convergence of the production and consumption spheres that enables people to become housing ‘prosumers’
Cultivating Natures: Homes and Gardens in Late Modernity
In this paper we seek to engage with contemporary environmental debates concerning human-nature relations at the everyday level. Our focus is on the domestic or home garden, which we argue is a significant locale for understanding human-nature relations. Secondary empirical data illustrate the growth of gardening and its connections to changes in housing tenure, consumption patterns and the `commodification of nature' by the garden industry. Prim…
I love being in the garden: Enchanting Encounters in Everyday Life
This paper examines how the domestic garden is experienced as an intimate place in everyday life. With reference to Bachelard we seek to analyse prosaic pleasures and enchanting encounters that are revealed through multi-sensorial engagements and emotional attachments within the social/natural world. In particular we focus on three modalities of the everyday: work or tasks involved in gardening; that is, sensuous and embodied experiences explored…
I never promised you a rose garden’: Gender, leisure and home-making
This paper explores the importance of contemporary gardens as leisure sites and argues that leisure in general, and the garden in particular, play an important role in the process of homemaking. We also consider how the contemporary garden reflects wider social relations by examining how gender relations imbue gardens and gardening. The gendered meanings of gardens and the garden as a place where gender power relations are played out, are highly …
When I'm in the Garden I Can Create My Own Paradise: Homes and Gardens in Later Life
This paper brings together recent work on later life and considers the effects of ageing in relation to participation and interest in gardening. Whilst there is considerable research and literature on issues such as health, housing, and social care, the significance of the garden in process of home-making is less well understood. Using qualitative data from the Mass Observation Data Archive, key physical, psycho-social processes that impact on th…
Home, the culture of nature and meanings of gardens in late modernity
The growth in the provision of gardens has been an important feature of housing in the UK during the 20th century, and yet the significance of the humble domestic garden has been neglected in studies of housing and home. This paper examines the role of the garden in the meaning of home, and draws on theoretical discussions of nature, environmental risk and social uncertainty in late modernity. Secondary empirical data is used to investigate the c…
Women's Leisure and Auto/Biography: Empowerment and Resistance in the Garden
This exploratory paper addresses prevailing conceptualisations of women's agency in leisure. It focuses on the reproduction/resistance framework characteristic of much feminist work. Realising the role of leisure in reproducing oppressive gender relations and the various ways that leisure can also resist them is vital to the continual politicisation of leisure, however we explore whether this framework can always adequately realise the complexiti…
Peaceful, Pleasant and Private: The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape
This paper uses narrative accounts of private gardens in Britain from the Mass-Observation Archive (MO) to explore ideas of landscape, privacy and attachment that emerge from daily practices and routines in these ordinary domestic spaces. We argue for the domestic garden as a vernacular or ordinary landscape that displays tensions between the private and the public nature of home within ambivalent emotional responses. Extended personal narratives…
Whatever Happened to 'Housing and the Environment
This paper takes stock of the housing and environment debate and argues that much of the optimism of the early 1990s has declined. Our own work is reviewed as an example of the limits of previous approaches to analysing contemporary housing and environmental issues. There appears to be a paradox in that housing organisations are now much more environmentally aware; many are developing green housing projects, and yet the development of theory has …
Garden Stories: Auto/biography, Gender and Gardening
Life writing in the form of a single garden story is used in this paper to examine the garden as a powerful theme in gendered leisure. I explore the ways in which garden narratives in the form of auto/biography can represent new identities in everyday life. One women's life story is (re)told; about her childhood, her home and family, and her work in the garden. I conclude that life stories contained in the Mass Observation Archive (big and small)…
Housing and Environmental Policy in the UK
Since the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the development of a ‘green’ housing policy for the UK has received considerable attention. Even though there appears to be a consensus that a more environmentally sustainable housing system is both necessary and desirable, the British government has emphasised market mechanisms to tackle environmental problems. This article critically examines this approach to environmental policy in the UK…
From consumers to prosumers: Housing for a sustainable future
This paper takes a critical look at the recent ‘greening’ of housing. The implications of contemporary environmental perspectives for housing are assessed. An alternative framework that examines housing from an eco‐socialist position is proposed. This perspective implies a convergence of the production and consumption spheres that enables people to become housing ‘prosumers’
Human-Landscape Relations and the Occupation of Space: Experiencing and Expressing Domestic Gardens
A consideration of occupation and space is outlined to advance nonrepresentational thinking about human-landscape relations. Empirical findings are presented from a research project based on data from the Mass Observation Archive relevant to gardens and gardening. These data are analysed to explore how 'ordinary' people (who have contributed to this Archive) express and experience issues concerning their home gardens. Our analysis suggests four d…
Housing/Futures? The Challenge from Environmentalism
Housing studies have much to contribute to the debate about sustainable futures and yet there has been a lack of critical engagement with environmentalism. This paper sets out to show how the environmental debate can be enhanced by three traditional perspectives found within housing studies; these are: neo-classical economics, Weberian sociology and Marxism. It is suggested that housing researchers have begun to incorporate environmental issues i…
Going public: Landscaping Everyday Life
Gardens are not unusual sites to practise cultural geographies. In an earlier ‘cultural geographies in practice’ Steve Daniels reflected on his work on Art of the Garden, an exhibition at Tate Britain in 2004, which toured to other galleries,1 and a more recent contribution from Laura Lawson recounted public engagement with a community garden site in Chicago.2 This latest account documents a different, practice-based approach to the British garde…
From consumers to prosumers: Housing for a sustainable future
This paper takes a critical look at the recent ‘greening’ of housing. The implications of contemporary environmental perspectives for housing are assessed. An alternative framework that examines housing from an eco‐socialist position is proposed. This perspective implies a convergence of the production and consumption spheres that enables people to become housing ‘prosumers’
Housing and Environmental Policy in the UK
Since the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the development of a ‘green’ housing policy for the UK has received considerable attention. Even though there appears to be a consensus that a more environmentally sustainable housing system is both necessary and desirable, the British government has emphasised market mechanisms to tackle environmental problems. This article critically examines this approach to environmental policy in the UK…
Environmental Performance as a Competitive Strategy? British Speculative House Builders in the 1990s
The paper examines the potential for improved environmental performance by British housebuilders in light of stricter thermal regulation of new homes. The impact on housebuilders of incorporating energy rating into Building Regulations is considered, together with an assessment of role of ‘energy efficiency’ as a potential business and marketing strategy
I never promised you a rose garden’: Gender, leisure and home-making
This paper explores the importance of contemporary gardens as leisure sites and argues that leisure in general, and the garden in particular, play an important role in the process of homemaking. We also consider how the contemporary garden reflects wider social relations by examining how gender relations imbue gardens and gardening. The gendered meanings of gardens and the garden as a place where gender power relations are played out, are highly …
Housing/Futures? The Challenge from Environmentalism
Housing studies have much to contribute to the debate about sustainable futures and yet there has been a lack of critical engagement with environmentalism. This paper sets out to show how the environmental debate can be enhanced by three traditional perspectives found within housing studies; these are: neo-classical economics, Weberian sociology and Marxism. It is suggested that housing researchers have begun to incorporate environmental issues i…
Cultivating Natures: Homes and Gardens in Late Modernity
In this paper we seek to engage with contemporary environmental debates concerning human-nature relations at the everyday level. Our focus is on the domestic or home garden, which we argue is a significant locale for understanding human-nature relations. Secondary empirical data illustrate the growth of gardening and its connections to changes in housing tenure, consumption patterns and the `commodification of nature' by the garden industry. Prim…
Whatever Happened to 'Housing and the Environment
This paper takes stock of the housing and environment debate and argues that much of the optimism of the early 1990s has declined. Our own work is reviewed as an example of the limits of previous approaches to analysing contemporary housing and environmental issues. There appears to be a paradox in that housing organisations are now much more environmentally aware; many are developing green housing projects, and yet the development of theory has …
Home, the culture of nature and meanings of gardens in late modernity
The growth in the provision of gardens has been an important feature of housing in the UK during the 20th century, and yet the significance of the humble domestic garden has been neglected in studies of housing and home. This paper examines the role of the garden in the meaning of home, and draws on theoretical discussions of nature, environmental risk and social uncertainty in late modernity. Secondary empirical data is used to investigate the c…
When I'm in the Garden I Can Create My Own Paradise: Homes and Gardens in Later Life
This paper brings together recent work on later life and considers the effects of ageing in relation to participation and interest in gardening. Whilst there is considerable research and literature on issues such as health, housing, and social care, the significance of the garden in process of home-making is less well understood. Using qualitative data from the Mass Observation Data Archive, key physical, psycho-social processes that impact on th…
Women's Leisure and Auto/Biography: Empowerment and Resistance in the Garden
This exploratory paper addresses prevailing conceptualisations of women's agency in leisure. It focuses on the reproduction/resistance framework characteristic of much feminist work. Realising the role of leisure in reproducing oppressive gender relations and the various ways that leisure can also resist them is vital to the continual politicisation of leisure, however we explore whether this framework can always adequately realise the complexiti…
Heritage, memory and the politics of identity: New perspectives on the cultural landscape – Edited by Niamh Moore and Yvonne Whelan
I love being in the garden: Enchanting Encounters in Everyday Life
This paper examines how the domestic garden is experienced as an intimate place in everyday life. With reference to Bachelard we seek to analyse prosaic pleasures and enchanting encounters that are revealed through multi-sensorial engagements and emotional attachments within the social/natural world. In particular we focus on three modalities of the everyday: work or tasks involved in gardening; that is, sensuous and embodied experiences explored…
A Taste for Gardening: Classed and Gendered Practices
Going public: Landscaping Everyday Life
Gardens are not unusual sites to practise cultural geographies. In an earlier ‘cultural geographies in practice’ Steve Daniels reflected on his work on Art of the Garden, an exhibition at Tate Britain in 2004, which toured to other galleries,1 and a more recent contribution from Laura Lawson recounted public engagement with a community garden site in Chicago.2 This latest account documents a different, practice-based approach to the British garde…
Human-Landscape Relations and the Occupation of Space: Experiencing and Expressing Domestic Gardens
A consideration of occupation and space is outlined to advance nonrepresentational thinking about human-landscape relations. Empirical findings are presented from a research project based on data from the Mass Observation Archive relevant to gardens and gardening. These data are analysed to explore how 'ordinary' people (who have contributed to this Archive) express and experience issues concerning their home gardens. Our analysis suggests four d…
Peaceful, Pleasant and Private: The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape
This paper uses narrative accounts of private gardens in Britain from the Mass-Observation Archive (MO) to explore ideas of landscape, privacy and attachment that emerge from daily practices and routines in these ordinary domestic spaces. We argue for the domestic garden as a vernacular or ordinary landscape that displays tensions between the private and the public nature of home within ambivalent emotional responses. Extended personal narratives…
Garden Stories: Auto/biography, Gender and Gardening
Life writing in the form of a single garden story is used in this paper to examine the garden as a powerful theme in gendered leisure. I explore the ways in which garden narratives in the form of auto/biography can represent new identities in everyday life. One women's life story is (re)told; about her childhood, her home and family, and her work in the garden. I conclude that life stories contained in the Mass Observation Archive (big and small)…
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