Abstract
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.
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