Public and private spaces

This article discusses the correlation between private and public life of
scientists in the Soviet Union by focusing on the case of prominent
Georgian ethnographer Vera Bardavelidze. This research seeks to clarify
one of the aspects of social life of the Soviet Georgia: when Soviet
ideology tightly controlled and implemented policies of high surveillance
over peoples’ lives. Exploring the relationship between one’s private and
public life during the Soviet period in the context of the theory of
social/public spaces is a relatively new branch of study in Georgia. The
subject of this research provides an opportunity to clearly follow the
“bottom-up” perspective rather than the “top-down” approach, which is
generally utilized in the context of the Soviet era’s official policy. The
aforementioned perspective enables scholars to fill existing gaps in this
field. This research presents exterior loyalty as an opportunity of preserving
internal freedom.

A história já mostrou que nenhum combate feminista foi vitorioso sem passar por movimentos muito radicalizados, com base em reivindicações de melhoria de vida, manifestações de rua, activistas carismáticas e forte combatividade das massas femininas face às inevitáveis pressões da direita.
É este o repto que está posto diante de nós.

This article elaborates on discursive constructions of girls-only settings through the spatial metaphor of a room of one's own, as articulated in round-table discussions among staff and participants from girl-centered music programs in Sweden. The idea of a separate room refers to spaces for collective female empowerment as well as for individual knowledge acquisition and creativity. These spaces are constructed so as to provide the possibility for exploration, subjectivity, and focus, by offering (partial and temporary) escape from competition and control, from a gendered and gendering gaze, and from distraction. Girl-centered programs are also discussed as paradoxical because they function as gender-neutral when seen from the inside, but gender-specific when seen from the outside.

" À la table du boucher… au Prince de Montmartre ” est un récit qui plonge le lecteur dans l’atmosphère d’un bar-cabaret casablancais, décrivant les interactions sociales, la musique et la culture nocturne à travers les yeux d’un narrateur qui se fraye un chemin parmi les clients et le personnel.
(Résumé écrit par l'Intelligence artificielle COPILOT de Microsoft)

En aquest article volem posar en relleu algunes de les maneres com es poden analitzar els porters i les porteries, en qualitat d’institucio i d’espai a traves dels quals es poden copsar un conjunt de contradiccions i tensions de la modernitat. Es a dir, volem fer veure com aquests espais i aquestes persones morals se situen en el centre d’una serie d'oposicions classiques a la Modernitat. El que analitzarem aqui es com els porters i les porteries sorgeixen historicament com a institucions dintre de la ciutat i se situen en el llindar de les oposicions seguents: 1) public / privat; 2) comunitat / contracte; 3) formal / informal; 4) ordre / desordre; 5) coneixement / secret.

In recent years heritage and its public representations, such as those offered at folk festivals, museums and other similar venues of cultural presentation, have emerged as significant features of the cultural landscape offering anthropologists multiple venues for exploring the poly-vocal, multidimensional and participatory character of the past. This paper uses information collected from on going fieldwork at a local Jazz concert series in Washington, D.C. to build on the work of specific scholars and point towards forms and experiences that engage and enact a second sense of heritage that stands alongside this more discursively dominant public sense of heritage. This 'lived' heritage will be presented as a processual, reflexive activity that is performed in everyday life, enacted and experienced in spaces that are more private and less consciously constructed than the spaces inhabited by more institutionalized representations of public heritage, and realized under the direction of particular guiding aesthetics. The author argues that a performative framework, as an analytical tool applied to particular, everyday engagements with heritage, can yield not only insights related to the dynamics of such engagements but inform the labor of cultural workers within such engagements as well.

A autora deste artigo analisa os imbricamentos entre os espaços público e privado no séc. XX, através da abordagem do Filme Capote. Retomando a relação autor-fato-obra, recorrente neste filme , estabelecemos um diálogo com Hannah Arendt e Jürgen Habermas, buscando a compreensão da reconceituação destes espaços e suas conseqüências para a condição humana. Palavras-chave Espaços público e privado; condição humana.

E ste estudo se inspirou nos trabalhos que evidenciam o recorte Mulher e discute a mulher como uma construção sociaL Nesse sentido, segue uma linha de discussão, isto é, a idéia de que existem mulheres em todas as sociedades e dentro de uma mesma sociedade, a exemplo da nossa, onde estão presentes as classes e camadas sociais_ É o realce a assertiva de Simone de Beauvoir (1980), quando argumenta "que o ser humano indicado como feminino é uma produção da civilização em seu conjunto", cuja compreensão deve considerar a sociedade e a capacidade de sua cultura_ O "fato biológico", portanto, só adquire sentido em um contexto sociaL Desse modo, dizer que uma pessoa não nasce mulher, toma-se mulher, como diz a autora, é defender o ponto de vista de que a identidade feminina é sempre um produto de um conjunto de determinações e processos_ Nas sociedades contemporâneas, a compreensão da identidade feminina e a sua expressão, em formas múltiplas, implica em considerar posição de classe, religião, questão de pertencer a um grupo étnico, biografia e trajetórias pessoais, rede de parentesco,. entre outros. (Cavalcanti & Heilbom, 1979). Seguindo esta trilha de pensamento, procurei estudar um grupo específico de mulheres, evidenciando determinações, tais como: o "habitus" profissional, a trajetória pessoal, a vivência no mundo da casa, a fim de fazer uma "leitura" a respeito da identidade feminina, revelada por mulheres profissionais, voltadas ao ensino universitário,

En aquest article volem posar en relleu algunes de les maneres com es poden analitzar els porters i les porteries, en qualitat d’institucio i d’espai a traves dels quals es poden copsar un conjunt de contradiccions i tensions de la modernitat. Es a dir, volem fer veure com aquests espais i aquestes persones morals se situen en el centre d’una serie d'oposicions classiques a la Modernitat. El que analitzarem aqui es com els porters i les porteries sorgeixen historicament com a institucions dintre de la ciutat i se situen en el llindar de les oposicions seguents: 1) public / privat; 2) comunitat / contracte; 3) formal / informal; 4) ordre / desordre; 5) coneixement / secret.

This proposal presents an ethnography of the occupation of the public garden at night in Casablanca. This space is located in a working-class neighbourhood characterized by a high density of inhabitants. The dwellings are generally small on the surface, and several families live together in small apartments. The public garden presents a privileged place for women and men to get out of the narrow habitat spaces, meet, and give themselves to other social practices. The

International audience"Following the lead of a fewarchaeologists, we have tried to decipherthe social meaningsof spatial layout based on data as the degree of intimacy, pattern of visibility and circulation.The methodology of spatial analysisthus elaborated for the central and southern lowlands Maya cities focusesprecisely on analyzing places, public or private, as a setof spatial relations establishedby agiven society in a given time, between distinct and specific social groups. In diachrony the study of the relations between both spatial unitsgives us some clues to model the negotiation processes between factions, in order to restitutethe political historyof the cities independently of the epigraphic information." (source éditeur

This research is based on the systematic literature review related to the definition of Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS). POPS arise as a bonus of the urban planning concession resulting from negotiations between private investors and city administration. The question arises whether, during their formation, the urbanistic criteria that ensure public space quality are sufficiently represented, or the superior private interest results in critical urban quality aspects. By comparatively analyzing the definitions’ key features, nine specific POPS aspects have been identified and classified into two categories according to basic criteria: impact on investors and on broader urban contexts. The results show that a group of spatial criteria (usage impact, user’s perception, connectivity, urbanity and socialization) have been neglected or ignored in defining POPS. Current definitions do not consider the importance of POPS influence in a wider urban context and POPS is not, in any way, co...

Anthropology is a science that is in constant transformation. New possibilities for objects, strategies and anthropological methodologies are present in the multiple forms of representation of the other. We started the 21st century with a series of questions about anthropological doing itself. This text aims to discuss the anthropological knowledge produced from multiple approaches and representation of the other, having as theoretical support the theories of Marilyn Strathern, 1 Saba Mahmood 2 and Lila Abu-Lughod 3 starting from their feminist approaches and how these influence or can influence anthropological debates. Anthropology can walk in the opposite direction, it can show that feminism can be an extension, but not a barrier to understanding the ability to listen to "others". The feminist debate brings to anthropology the capacity of a plural, non-universal, non-homogeneous movement of dispute over power, knowledge and gender. But walking with dialogue between transformative proposals of the discipline itself and feminist theories.

ARRIF, Abdelmajid, « Tourner autour ou la traversée des murs. À propos du spectacle "Habiter n'est pas dormir » de la Cie Volubilis" », Revue Science and Video [En ligne]. URL : https://scienceandvideo.mmsh.fr/varia-11/ Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0

Gitanos (Spanish Roma) have undergone major transformations in the last half-century. But in some areas, they were already successfully included in the majority society. Some have practiced “resistance to respectability” (Kaprow, 1982) but we examine a family history of Andalusian Gitanos, neither marginal nor exotic, who did not. Representing the importance of local context and choice in a determined socioeconomic conjuncture, their cultural creativity provides a positive perspective from which to look at Gitano history. Without denying negative and traumatic treatment “from above”, we attempt to move beyond exclusionary perspectives which objectify and essentialize Roma based on marginalization, discrimination and poverty. We celebrate the historical ability of Gitanos in Southern Spain to become a respected integral part of the local community, and thus seek a different perspective from which to look at the history of this community.

Exposure to and connection with nature is increasingly recognized as providing significant well-being benefits for adults and children. Increasing numbers of children growing up in urban areas need access to nature to experience these benefits and develop a nature connection. Under the biophilia hypothesis, children should innately affiliate to nature. We investigated children's independent selection of spaces in their neighborhoods in relation to the biodiversity values of those spaces, in three New Zealand cities, using resource-selection analysis. Children did not preferentially use the more biodiverse areas in their neighborhoods. Private gardens and yards were the most preferred space, with the quality of these spaces the most important factor defining children's exposure to nature. Children's reliance on gardens and yards for nature experiences raises concerns for their development of a nature connection, given disparities in biodiversity values of private gardens ...

Au cours des dernières années, plusieurs pratiques culturelles et artistiques observées à Montréal remettent en question l’utilisation de la dichotomie classique d’espaces publics-privés. Pour pallier ce manque conceptuel, nous proposons, dans le cadre de cet article, de préciser la notion d’espaces équivoques. Par la présentation sommaire de cinq exemples de la région de Montréal, nous offrirons un aperçu des formes que peuvent prendre ces espaces. Puis, à partir d’une double étude de cas réalisée entre 2009 et 2011, nous démontrerons par quels processus le caractère équivoque de certains espaces émerge, s’accentue ou s’amenuise. Les résultats de cette recherche à caractère exploratoire permettront de fournir de nouveaux éclairages quant aux définitions d’espace public et privé et de soulever certaines pistes de réflexion quant aux relations qu’entretiennent les individus avec l’environnement urbain.

The objective of this paper is to investigate the correlation between the evolving status of women in the final years of the Qajar era (1895-1925) and the inception of  the women's rights movement that followed this period. Adopting a historical sociology framework and utilizing archival documents from the period, I examine the status of Qajar women, with a specific focus on their participation in public spaces.
In this paper I argued that for urban women in late Qajar society, the notion of self began to shift, resulting in the emergence of a new identity. This transformation became particularly prominent in the last decade of the era, encouraging women to become more involved in public spaces and acquire the essential knowledge needed to understand the outside world.

Alors, peut-être, la Maquette gagnerait en autonomie et se réaliserait comme prototype, esprit de la démarche de Darsi. Celui-ci pose son regard sur un morceau de ville, un bâti et le travaille au corps de sa physique, de sa ruine, de son esthétique, de ses charges temporelles et sociales pour le transfigurer en lieu problématique, en lieu en dé-placement.

This essay traces the development of mirror use in Russia from the medieval period to the modern day with particular attention to the dynamic interplay between the utilitarian and symbolic functions of this object. I examine how the discourse around mirrors in Russia was shaped by a preoccupation with border-crossing and identity that is distinctive to Russian culture as well as by mirror lore from other world traditions; and I demonstrate that the presence of mirrors shaped the production of imaginative literature in profound ways. The essay focuses on several key functions of the Russian mirror: as a site of self-creation and social interaction, as illusionistic décor, and as a tool for obtaining knowledge. In discussing human responses to mirror reflections, as documented in written texts, folklore, and film, my essay begins with personal mirrors in private spaces that conveyed the features of solitary beholders, and then moves outward to consider larger objects in public spaces, from street mirrors to glass skyscrapers, that were seen by multitudes and generated countless reflections in both the literal and the figurative sense.

En aquest article volem posar en relleu algunes de les maneres com es poden analitzar els porters i les porteries, en qualitat d’institucio i d’espai a traves dels quals es poden copsar un conjunt de contradiccions i tensions de la modernitat. Es a dir, volem fer veure com aquests espais i aquestes persones morals se situen en el centre d’una serie d'oposicions classiques a la Modernitat. El que analitzarem aqui es com els porters i les porteries sorgeixen historicament com a institucions dintre de la ciutat i se situen en el llindar de les oposicions seguents: 1) public / privat; 2) comunitat / contracte; 3) formal / informal; 4) ordre / desordre; 5) coneixement / secret.

Este artigo propõe-se a refletir sobre a construção histórica e simbólica dos significados do trabalho das mulheres que configuraram possibilidades de identificação coletiva e, mais do que isso, a subjetividade presente nas formas de sociabilidade que o trabalho propicia, e os consequentes desafios identitários, ou novos agenciamentos coletivos que proporciona.

This article undertakes a quantitative and qualitative analysis of probate inventories from a selection of towns and highly urbanized areas from the kingdom of Valencia in the period 1280-1460, which are used to explore the inner distribution of more than 300 housings. Agreeing with the historiographical statement that this period was one of general improvement as to living standards and housing, this article reveals Valencian dwellings were provided with more specialized rooms since the late fourteenth century. This phenomenon was present particularly in the residences of townspeople living in large urban centers. Despite the predominant spatial simplicity of most late medieval housings, this article suggests more people enjoyed a more complex private space, which agreed with the needs of ostentation and privacy that characterized the new domestic culture that developed in the period.

El panorama posmoderno, con el surgimiento de un mundo global más complejo, diverso, y multicutural ha impuesto la revisión de todas nuestras categorías sociales y culturales, lo que ha significado la aparición de nuevas cartografías que deben adaptarse a la fluidez y dinámicas de las comunidades emergentes. Entre ellas el mundo queer, que ha comenzado desde hace algunas décadas ha tener una mayor presencia en nuestras urbes. Aquí se quiere revisar el panorama del mundo queer chileno de las últimas décadas, poniendo espacial énfasis en su estrategia y dispositivos de instalación en el medio urbano, en particular los relacionados con el ámbito de la arquitectura y el espacio público en la ciudad de Santiago de Chile.

Raum ist deine der grundlegenden Rahmenbedingungen menschlichen Lebens. Er bildet zusammen mit Zeit ein strukturelles Gitter für die Organisation von Gesellschaft. Die Erfahrungs- und Aneignungsformen bestimmen den Spielraum menschlichen Handelns und Lebens. Der Besitz und das Zugestehen von Raum ist eine Frage von Macht und Ressourcen. Diese Arbeit versucht in einem interdisziplinären Zugang von Sozialgeographie, Architektur und Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie (Siedlungssoziologie) bis hin zu räumlich orientierter feministische Wissenschaft die Bedeutung des gebauten Raum zu beleuchten: Inwiefern werden durch ihn Aneignungsmöglichkeiten beeinflusst, für wen erschwert er den Zugang und für wen hält er Hindernisse bereit? Wie erfolgt die Gestaltung und Planung physischen Raumes und welche Auswirkungen hat dies für wen? Versteht man es, den gebauten physischen Raum zu „lesen“, so teilt dieser uns viel über soziale Räume und gesellschaftliche Machtverhältnisse, hierunter auch das Geschlechterverhältnis, mit. Das Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit ist es daher, einerseits grundsätzliche Zusammenhänge zwischen physischem (gebautem) und sozialem Raum darzustellen und andererseits aufzuzeigen, wie und wo es unterschiedliche Aneignungsmöglichkeiten je nach Geschlecht gibt und welche Folgen dies mit sich bringt.

This article is part of an on-going analysis of a Spanish television documentary series entitled Rito y Geografía del Cante. This larger on-going analysis treats the programmes in this series as ‘cultural performances’. The programmes are assumed to model personhood as they go about presenting information about flamenco music. This particular article focuses on the role of the body in these performed models of personhood.

Preâmbulo a um debate geográfico-filosófico sobre a cidade. Num primeiro momento tematiza-se a questão da socialidade produzida a partir de uma lógica socioespacial presente nas relações humanas. Em seguida, verifica-se que a expressão socioespacial dessas relações ganha matizes diversos na cidade. Em face disto, e apresentado no terceiro momento, argumenta-se que específicos estágios nas formas das relações humanas acabam por tecer formas específicas de experiência geográfica dos indivíduos na cidade. Palavras-chave: Cidade. Socioespacialidade. Cidade do modo ter de existência. Cidade do modo ser de existência.

It is an evidence for Theatre Studies researchers, that the hierarchical structures of East-European dictatorial regimes are reproduced by the institutional model of Regietheater, which uses their power structures and, very often, their means. Theatrical forms articulated in the period of dictatorial one-party regimes are evidently surrounded by secret, vagueness, non-disclosure and realities suppressed by power – today’s political and moral scandals result from those times. The starting point of our research can be defined from the perspective of contemporary theatre structures:  what kind of moral, aesthetical, theatre pedagogical and power systems determine the „industry” and practice of theatre, and its public sphere. Following Michel Foucault’s and De Certeau’s power and action theories, the study deals with the re-shaping of the heterogeneous public spheres after 1945, and the theatre’s institutional structure, the altering of the inner publicity, the refining techniques of body caring and the reorganization of body archives by power.

International audience"Following the lead of a fewarchaeologists, we have tried to decipherthe social meaningsof spatial layout based on data as the degree of intimacy, pattern of visibility and circulation.The methodology of spatial analysisthus elaborated for the central and southern lowlands Maya cities focusesprecisely on analyzing places, public or private, as a setof spatial relations establishedby agiven society in a given time, between distinct and specific social groups. In diachrony the study of the relations between both spatial unitsgives us some clues to model the negotiation processes between factions, in order to restitutethe political historyof the cities independently of the epigraphic information." (source éditeur

Hinter digitalen Technologien liegen mathematische Modelle, die einer 1- oder 0-Logik folgen. Diese Modelle sind keine Naturgesetze, sondern der Versuch, die Realität in einer solchen Logik abzubilden. Demnach sind Technologien nicht neutral, sondern bilden bestehende Machtverhältnisse ab oder begünstigen gar ihre Verfestigung. In der Coronakrise wurde ein Großteil des beruflichen wie privaten gesellschaftlichen Geschehens in den digitalen Raum verlagert. Dadurch lassen sich zentrale Konfliktlinien der Digitalisierung, die Interessensvertretungen beschäftigen, zugespitzt beobachten. Zentrale Spannungsfelder betreffend die geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung und die Verkehrung von öffentlich vs. privat, die Macht- und Kapitalkonzentration bei den IKT-Konzernen und eine Krise der Organisierung in der digitalen Arbeitswelt. Diesen Herausforderungen zu begegnen erfordert, dass Interessensvertretungen den technologischen Wandel als sozialen Prozess erfassen, diese Machtverhältnisse begreifen und entsprechende Antworten finden.

Link zum Paper: https://www.momentum-quarterly.org/ojs2/index.php/momentum/article/view/4084

In this chapter, we discuss and demonstrate how to analyse the urban micro-spatial relationships between private and public spaces. These methods allow one to analyse intervisibility between buildingsandstreets, entrancedensity from buildings towards streets, streetconstitutedness, and the topological depth between private and public spaces. These urban micro-scaleanalyses are a quantification of Jane Jacob’s (1960) and Jan Gehl’s (1996) presumptions about the interrelation between streets and building entrances and windows. Exercises are provided at the end of this chapter.

Today of prof. Guido Amedeo Vitale of  Pontagio diplomat and sinologist, perhaps one of  the most famous, has not written enough, indeed little or nothing has been written about him. The existence of a substantial and interesting historical archive, deliberately opened by the heirs in order to make it available to scholars with more diligence and knowledge, prompted me to publish this book. In it through: images, photographs, transcriptions taken from diaries with  interesting situations and historical considerations experienced firsthand, the human experience of the man, the diplomat, the father of a family and the irreducible scholar of Sinic language and culture is told  . For too long forgotten and forgotten both by Italic history and by the academic world one hundred and three years after his death, Wei-Dà-Leì (Guido Vitale) is today officially considered the Father of the Fatherland for the entire Chinese people. He was the one who anticipated and made known the importance Pro-Cipuan folk literature, renewing the popular language of Baihua after the abandonment of the classical Wenyan language.

« Quand la rue devient maison : habito et diligo dans la ville » est une analyse interdisciplinaire de l'appropriation des espaces urbains. Sa proposition : comparer un centre de quartier traditionnel avec une unité de voisinage projetée entièrement selon des paramètres et conceptions modernes, à Rio de Janeiro-respectivement les quartiers du Catumbi et de la Selva de Pedra. La méthode de travail adoptée cherche à relier la connaissance architectonique et urbanistique à l'abord particulier de l'anthropologie sociale, en dégageant les catégories qui structurent la cognition et les opérations pragmatiques sur les espaces sociaux, dans la vie quotidienne de la population.

Le lotissement d'habitat economique est, au Maroc, une forme urbaine originale. Il trouve son origine dans la prise en compte, par la puissance colonisatrice, d'une culture domestique et urbaine endogene, particulierement vivace. Apres l'independance, les services de l'urbanisme continueront de la considerer, a travers le decret de 1964 qui reglemente ces lotissements. Cependant, en "modernisant" la distribution spatiale des lots et la conception du "plan-type" des habitations, l'administration a impose des modeles trop "occidentalises" pour que les habitants s'en satisfassent. Ils les reajustent alors pour y developper une organisation repondant mieux a la representation qu'ils se font de la maison. Sur la parcelle qu'il leur est allouee, dont la petite taille est conforme a une densite inscrite dans le paysage urbain du Maroc, beaucoup d'allocataires edifient progressivement une "grande maison", propice a ...

In the light of the contemporary issue of same-sex (gay/lesbian) marriage, our professional concern with inter-female hostility in Igbo society readily stimulates us to ponder on its permissibility or otherwise in the Igbo world. This is because, given our research background and findings on the issue of inter-female hostility in Igbo society, we see that the guiding values for both ways of life – i.e. same-sex (gay/lesbian) marriage and inter-female hostility – are both universally antagonizing and regionally intolerable, with respect to Igbo culture. In Igbo land, it is granted for marriage to exist basically between a man and a woman. However, there are cases where marriage between an elderly woman and a younger woman is permissible. It is important to note at this point that such marriage is not in any way lesbian marriage, even though it is the same gender marriage. This form of marriage is both traditionally and socially acceptable, and it is contracted for the sake of procrea...

This article is part of an on-going analysis of a Spanish television documentary series entitled Rito y Geografía del Cante. This larger on-going analysis treats the programmes in this series as ‘cultural performances’. The programmes are assumed to model personhood as they go about presenting information about flamenco music. This particular article focuses on the role of the body in these performed models of personhood.

Abstract
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2004 and 2013 for the Cities Without Slums program, this analysis attempts to explain the fact that in the Moroccan city, the "rurality-poverty" symmetry is not only a state of deprivation of dignified/decent housing, insalubrity, or lack of access to urban quality of life but also presents itself as a by-product of a preoccupation with rural regeneration and a "cultural expansion" of rurality. Applying conceptual frameworks developed in social and cultural geography, our research reveals the richness of everyday life in the slum, reflecting a historically rooted "common culture" through which a "rural social imaginary mediates social life." This "residual" formation, which emphasizes the importance of the culture of rurality in the constitution of urban space, suggests a much broader understanding of urban poverty than that currently adopted by public policy. It is a matter of considering urban poverty as a dynamic structure endowed with a system of values and a capacity to resist change, without which slum dwellers, as a fragile space, could hardly distinguish themselves as owners of a "territorial identity".
Key words
Social space, slum, culture of poverty, social geography, rurality, residential strategies.

An attempt to seek out and understand emerging trends and some of the challenges we face when dealing with an increasing amount and complexity of entertainment technologies in our homes, particularly in spaces that are both private and public. Accepting the premise that this influx of technologies will continue, the author identified some of the challenges that consumers, manufacturers, distributors and creators of content are facing today in incorporating these technologies into home life. Anticipating an imminent transformation, the author proposes a new approach to smart homes and an updated model for content distribution.

This study demonstrates how a single type of sign can be connected to language policy on a larger scale. Focusing on the relationship between language policy and language ideologies, I investigate the private Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Hungarians living in two villages in Slovakia. Through an examination of 'beware of the dog' signs, it is shown how such signs can be indicative of different language policies. In Slovakia, the Hungarian public LL is often referred to as a threat to the state language and public order. This ideology is reflected on the LL so that there are mostly Slovak-only public signs in bilingual and Hungarian dominant villages. The private realm is the only significant area where a certain Hungarian dominance is present. In a bilingual village, Hungarians prefer Slovak in their public signage, while in a village with Hungarian majority people invest on having private Hungarian signs by purchasing them in Hungary as well as through hand-making signs. The counter-normativity of having monolingual Hungarian signs is underlined by several factors. First, the language policy referred to as laws have put an emphasis on warning signs. Secondly, a Hungarian language rights leaflet has elevated 'beware of the dog' signs as normatively bilingual. Thirdly, the context of Slovakia, engaged in nation building disfavors the public use of Hungarian. This paper illustrates the importance of considering ideologies as reflected in private LL in multilingual contexts in transition.