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Database research record2022·United Kingdom

Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking: Challenges to land ownership and aesthetic order

Andrew Millie

Crime Media Culture An International Journal

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This article considered guerrilla gardening, which involves taking on other people’s land without permission. A qualitative study of guerrilla gardeners from the North West of England found that guerrilla gardening is a normalised form of law-breaking. Despite not necessarily being to everyone’s taste and gardeners having an autocratic view of property, it is broadly accepted and welcomed, even by those who enforce the law.