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Deconstructing the Key Messages: Analysing F Troop and the Women’s Group

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In this chapter, we reflect on the material gathered through our ethnographic-influenced exploration of several guerrilla gardening troops: in particular reviewing our interactions with F Troop and the Women’s Group. Each of the guerrilla gardener groups are reviewed in isolation, before we compare and contrast them in the latter parts of the chapter. Ultimately, this chapter aims to deconstruct the groups’ actions and compare them to other ‘types’ of guerrilla gardeners. Perhaps unlike other texts which have reflected on guerrilla practice, within this chapter we hope to provide an objective account of their actions; from further investigating the types of produce grown to their interactions with the community, we stand back from the guerrilla group and critically review practice. Through adopting this approach, we hope to pave the way for a critique of the groups’ actions and, in particular, the idea of guerrilla gardeners pursuing an urban agricultural agenda.

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    Michael Hardman

  2. Birmingham School of the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

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Hardman, M., Larkham, P.J. (2014). Deconstructing the Key Messages: Analysing F Troop and the Women’s Group. In: Informal Urban Agriculture. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09534-9_5

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