Custard, Culverts and Cake by Cara Courage

Custard, Culverts and Cake by Cara Courage

Leading scholars from the Academic Archers network combine a love of The Archers with their specialist subjects, in Custard, Culverts and Cake - a sometimes serious, but most often wry look at the people of Ambridge. Scholars take on subjects such as food, geography, social media, faith and naturally, the Helen and Rob storyline.

US and UK contributors, members of the Academic Archers Network, explore aspects of the long-running BBC soap opera The Archers, employing perspectives from urban policy, rural education, cultural studies, social work, community resilience, rural ministry, and social and behavioral aspects of cyber securityB&w genograms and kinship diagrams of characters are included. The book stems from papers delivered at a conference called "The Archers in Fact and Fiction: Academic Analysis of Life in Rural Borsetshire." -- Annotation ©2017 * (protoview.com) *
“Custard Culverts and Cake involves the application of genuine research methodologies and concerns to the world of Ambridge and Borsetshire… This is a valuable book, with serious points to make about social sampling and effective research conceptualization; a ‘should read’ for research methodology.”
Brian Morton, Times Literary Supplement, 2018

Dr Cara Courage is a placemaking academic and arts consultant, writer/commentator, curator and project manager. She is author of Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice, and works as an Adjunct at University of Virginia, researching and developing creative placemaking metrics and as a strategist at Futurecity, whilst running her own placemaking projects. She has been listening to The Archers for around 15 years and grew up with the programme on her grandmother's farm on Exmoor. She talks about the pleasure and pain of her Archers fandom in a talk My BDSM relationship with The Archers.

Dr Nicola Headlam is the Urban Transformations & Foresight Future of Cities Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is an adaptable urbanist with expertise in city governance, economic development and urban policy. She is passionate about role of universities in public policy and practice, knowledge mobilisation; transfer, exchange and co-production.

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ISBN 13	9781787432864
ISBN 10	1787432866
Title	Custard, Culverts and Cake
Author	Cara Courage
Series	The Academic Archers Book Set
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Emerald Publishing Limited
Year published	2017-10-05
Number of pages	480
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.