Peaceful, Pleasant and Private
The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8092260 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Bhatti (corresponding author), Andrew Church (0000-0003-4863-8794), Amanda Claremont |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-52 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscape Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6397 • E-ISSN: 1469-9710 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01426397.2012.759918 |
| OpenAlex | W2020733319 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 20 |
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 offer privileged access to a site of intense engagement and carefully guarded privacy, yet with varying levels of attachment. The garden is a space well described in Britain in its public form but less well known as a private, everyday landscape. In this way a cultural landscape study becomes a contemporary critical geography of an ordinary space
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Everyday life · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Private space · Sociology · Vernacular · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |