Going public: Landscaping everyday life

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 277-282

  Claremont, Amanda ^a   Church, Andrew ^a   Bhatti, Mark ^a   Stenner, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

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CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; LIFESTYLE;

EID: 77951182957     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474009350007     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. S. Daniels 'The garden in winter', cultural geographies 12(3) (2005), pp. 366-70.
2. L. Lawson 'The South Central farm: dilemmas in practising the public' cultural geographies 14(4) (2007), pp. 611-16.
3. The exhibition was part of 'Writing the landscape of everyday life: lay narratives of domestic gardens', a project funded by the AHRC's Landscape and Environment programme, directed by Professor Stephen Daniels. The Mass Observation Archive (MOA, often colloquially 'Mass Obs') is held at the University of Sussex, England. Its operation and content is believed to be unique to the UK. Established in 1937, the original purpose was locally-based anthropology, or 'anthropology at home', carried out by observers: a form of participant observation. The first phase of MOA ran from 1937 to 1951 and is known principally for its wartime diaries and other writings. These early resources on everyday life in Britain have been and continue to be extensively researched, see www.massobs.org.uk. In 1981 the archive was moved to the University of Sussex and a new panel of observers or respondents was recruited. The director of the MOA maintains that the word 'ordinary' best describes the respondents and the material they provide.
4. M. Bhatti and A. Church, 'Home, the culture of nature and the meaning of gardens in late modernity', Housing studies 19(1) (2004), pp. 37-51.
5. See for example A. Howkins, 'Qualifying the evidence: perceptions of rural change in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century', in D. Gilbert, D. Matless and B. Short, eds, Geographies of British modernity (Oxford, Blackwell, 2003), pp. 98-9.
6. also D. Sheridan, B.V. Street and D. Bloome, Writing ourselves: mass-observation and literacy practices (Cresskill, NJ, Hampton Press, 2000).
7. C. Geertz, The interpretation of cultures (New York, Basic Books, 1973).
8. B. Highmore, The everyday life reader (London, Routledge, 2002).
9. M. Bhatti, A. Church, A.L. Claremont and P. Stenner, '"I love being in the garden": enchanting encounters in everyday life', Social and cultural geography 10(1) (2009), pp. 61-76.
10. A. Hart, E. Madison and D. Wolff, Community-university partnerships in practice (London, NIACE, 2007).
11. See T. Bennett, The birth of the museum (London, Routledge, 1995).
12. also C. Rojek and J. Urry, 'Indexing, dragging and the social constitution of tourist sites', in C. Rojek and J. Urry, eds, Touring cultures: transformations, travel and theory (London, Routledge, 1997).
13. and G. Rose, Visual methodologies (London, Sage, 2001).
14. M. de Certeau, L. Giard and P. Mayol, The practice of everyday life Vol. 2: living and cooking (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998).