Informal Urban Agriculture: The Secret Lives of Guerrilla by Michael Hardman

By Michael Hardman

The e-book explores how unused and under-used city areas – from grass verges, roundabouts, eco-friendly areas – were made extra visually attention-grabbing and extra effective, by means of casual (and frequently unlawful) teams referred to as “guerrilla gardeners”. The ebook makes a speciality of teams within the English Midlands however the paintings is decided in a extensive overseas context and divulges how and why they adopt this criminality. Guerrilla gardening is mostly seen uncritically and promoted as a worthy job: this learn offers a extra balanced overview and specializes in its contribution by way of neighborhood nutrition production.

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McKay (2011) believes that Reynolds’ text promotes the act of guerrilla gardening and his own interpretation of the activity, reading more like a textbook of how to adopt this grass-roots approach, as opposed to the pros and cons of guerrilla action. In summary, Reynolds’s approach and words appear to be actively antiauthoritarian, promoting the idea that grass-roots groups should declare war and occupy neglected spaces (Reynolds 2008). Reynolds’ anti-authoritarian views in themselves are nothing new: regulated space and the battles that ensue have long been a focus of discussion.

From Critique to Praise: The Future of the Local Trap Oosterveer and Sonnenfield (2012) feel that Purcell’s questions raise notions about the sometimes negative operations of local food projects. The outcomes and impacts of these community agriculture initiatives are entirely dependent on the actors and strategies employed (Marsden 2008; Oosterveer and Sonnenfield 2012). The local trap, according to Carolan (2011: 136), ‘has been used to conceptually disassemble those that make a case for local food’: evidently, like Carolan, there are some authors who are critical of the approach adopted by Purcell and his colleagues.

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