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5. 'When I'm in the garden I can create my own paradise': Homes and gardens in later life

Author

Bhatti, Mark

Subjects
Aging -- Psychological aspects, Aging -- Social aspects, Aged -- Social aspects, Gardening -- Analysis, Sociology and social work
Abstract

To purchase or authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00616.x Byline: Mark Bhatti Abstract: Abstract 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 the use of the garden and gardening activities are examined. It will be suggested that the garden can have major significance in the (re) creation of 'home' in later life.

Published
2006

18. Peaceful, Pleasant and Private: The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape.

Author

Bhatti, Mark, Church, Andrew, and Claremont, Amanda

Subjects
DOMESTIC space, EMOTIONAL conditioning, GARDENS, CULTURAL landscapes, EDUCATION
Abstract

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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20. Chapter 14: THE MEANING OF GARDENS IN AN AGE OF RISK.

Author

Bhatti, Mark

Subjects
*GARDENING, *CIRCADIAN rhythms, *EVERYDAY life, *FAMILIES, *LIFE change events, *SOCIAL sciences
Abstract

The article reports that gardening is often portrayed as an entirely innocent everyday activity, a retreat from the public world of work and politics. There are new interpretations, new uses and an emerging debate about the meaning of gardens in the age of increasing environmental risk. This chapter attempts to link debates on the sociology of the environment with the analysis of the domestic garden. In the context of deteriorating environmental conditions and the search for sustainable futures, it is important to explore the possibilities offered by sociology for the "greening" of the home to compliment existing analyses from environmental science. The chapter is in three sections: the first section offers a brief history of the idea of "nature" and places the garden at centre stage within current debates about the state of the environment. The second looks at the history of garden styles and gardening today. The third section critically examines the meaning of gardens from the position of the currently dominant Modernist "culture of nature" which views the garden as an entity to be conquered. Finally, ecological approaches to the understanding of the garden

Published
1999

22. SPECIAL FOCUS: HOUSING, ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY.

Author

Bhatti, Mark and Dixon, Andrew

Subjects
*HOUSING, *ENVIRONMENTAL policy, *POVERTY, *SUSTAINABLE development
Abstract

Overviews issues covered in articles published in the July 2003 issue of the journal 'Housing Societies.' Impact of the implementation of environmental policies on poor households; Emphasis on the concept of 'environmental justice' in the U.S.; Need of housing and environment to be rethought in the context of cross-cutting themes including social and economic sustainability.

Published
2003
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23. Greening Housing: a challenge for public policy?

Author

Bhatti, Mark

Subjects
*POLITICAL planning, *HOUSING
Abstract

Focuses on environmental impacts of housing in Great Britain. Challenge for British public policy; Barriers to a sustainable housing system; Highlight of gaps in research and policy.

Published
2000

24. CULTIVATING PARADISE.

Author

Wiseman, Tania and Bhatti, Mark

Abstract

The article examines the significance of communal gardens and gardening activity in maintaining social contact, quality of life and physical and psychological health of older people based on a research. It discusses an alternative solution to overcoming a barrier to shared gardening. It concludes that gardens are an important part of older people's sense of home. It asserts that gardening can become a part of the sense of home if interest is stimulated and resources are allocated to enable them to participate.

Published
2007

25. Human-landscape relations and the occupation of space: experiencing and expressing domestic gardens

Author

Stenner, Paul, Church, Andrew, Bhatti, Mark, Stenner, Paul, Church, Andrew, and Bhatti, Mark

Abstract

A consideration of occupation and space is outlined to advance non-representational 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. The data is analysed to explore how 'ordinary' people (who have contributed to this archive) express and experience issues concerning their home gardens. Our analysis suggests for distinct modes of occupation relevant to the ways these lay writers describe their garden and gardening experiences and activities. The naturalistic mode is occupied with the garden as expressive of 'nature'; the nostalgic mode is occupied with memory and self-reflection; the pragmatic mode concerns tasks/activities that constitute the routine practices of gardening; and the mimetic mode is occupied with the interpersonal dynamics and processes of human social activity. The analysis is situated in the theoretical context of some recent developments in non-representational theory. We suggest that our approach and data are compatible with the process-orientation of non-representational thinkers, and that – contrary to certain objectivist tendencies within non-representational theorizing - this approach need not neglect the importance of issues of subjectivity and experience, and the relevance of textual data. We aim to lend empirical substance to recent theoretical and philosophical discussions on space, and speculations about why the home garden appears to be so important to many people.

26. Human-landscape relations and the occupation of space: experiencing and expressing domestic gardens

Author

Stenner, Paul, Church, Andrew, Bhatti, Mark, Stenner, Paul, Church, Andrew, and Bhatti, Mark

Abstract

A consideration of occupation and space is outlined to advance non-representational 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. The data is analysed to explore how 'ordinary' people (who have contributed to this archive) express and experience issues concerning their home gardens. Our analysis suggests for distinct modes of occupation relevant to the ways these lay writers describe their garden and gardening experiences and activities. The naturalistic mode is occupied with the garden as expressive of 'nature'; the nostalgic mode is occupied with memory and self-reflection; the pragmatic mode concerns tasks/activities that constitute the routine practices of gardening; and the mimetic mode is occupied with the interpersonal dynamics and processes of human social activity. The analysis is situated in the theoretical context of some recent developments in non-representational theory. We suggest that our approach and data are compatible with the process-orientation of non-representational thinkers, and that – contrary to certain objectivist tendencies within non-representational theorizing - this approach need not neglect the importance of issues of subjectivity and experience, and the relevance of textual data. We aim to lend empirical substance to recent theoretical and philosophical discussions on space, and speculations about why the home garden appears to be so important to many people.

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