ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on Scottish Open Gardens (OG) run by a charitable organisation. OGs are those attached to private houses that are opened as visitor attractions, where a proportion of the money charged for entry is raised for charity. Whilst there have been a few studies on OGs, they have omitted to develop conceptual debates relevant to OGs. This paper identifies privacy and power as key themes determining the ways in which OGs are produced by three kinds of ‘co-producers’: garden owners, volunteer organisers and helpers. Drawn from 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Scottish Lowlands, I will explain how the deconstruction of the private-public boundary in OGs underlies the nuanced power relationships. I argue that legitimacy of power exercised by the co-producers is determined by their perceptions of what is morally justifiable and by the geographical remits of locations where power is exercised. The paper concludes by emphasising implications for practice and suggestions for future research.

摘要

本文重点关注由慈善组织运营的苏格兰开放花园（OG）。OG是附在作为游客景点开放的私人房屋上的，在其中收取的入场费中有一部分是为慈善事业筹集的。尽管对OG进行了一些研究，但他们没有进行与OG相关的概念性辩论。本文将隐私和权力确定为决定三种“共同生产者”生产OG方式的关键主题：花园所有者，志愿者组织者和助手。我将从在苏格兰低地进行的12个月的人种志田野调查中汲取经验，我将解释OG中私人-公共边界的解构如何构成细微权力关系的基础。我认为，联合生产者行使权力的合法性取决于他们对什么是道义上合理的看法以及行使权力地点的地理范围。本文最后通过强调对实践的意义和对未来研究的建议进行总结。