About the Editors
ISBN: 978-1-78743-286-4, eISBN: 978-1-78743-285-7
Publication date: 5 October 2017
Citation
(2017), "About the Editors", Courage, C. and Headlam, N. (Ed.) Custard, Culverts and Cake, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. 413. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-285-720171035
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited
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, as a strategist at Futurecity, whilst running her own placemaking projects. She has been listening to The Archers for around fifteen years and grew up with the programme on her grandmother’s farm on Exmoor. She talks about the pleasure and plain of her Archers fandom in a talk My BDSM relationship with The Archers.
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.
- Prelims
- Section One Genteel Country Hobbies?
- Chapter One My Parsnips Are Bigger Than Your Parsnips: The Negative Aspects of Competing at Flower and Produce Shows
- Chapter Two ‘Big Telephoto Lens, Small Ticklist’: Birdwatching, Class and Gender in Ambridge
- Chapter Three The Ambridge Paradox: Cake Consumption and Metabolic Health in a Defined Rural Population
- Section Two Educating Ambridge
- Chapter Four Ambridge as Metaphor: Sharing the Mission and Values of a 21st-Century Library
- Chapter Five We Don’t Need No Education? The Absence of Primary Education in The Archers
- Chapter Six Educating Freddie Pargetter: Or, Will He Pass His Maths GCSE?
- Chapter Seven Phoebe Goes to Oxford
- Section Three The Geography of Ambridge
- Chapter Eight Get Me Out of Here! Assessing Ambridge’s Flood Resilience
- Chapter Nine After the Flood: How Can Ambridge Residents Develop Resilience to Future Flooding?
- Chapter Ten Locating Ambridge: Public Broadcasting, Region and Identity, An Everyday Story of Worcestershire Folk?
- Section Four Power Relationships
- Chapter Eleven A Case Study in the Use of Genograms to Assess Family Dysfunction and Social Class: To the Manor Born Versus Shameless
- Chapter Twelve Kinship Networks in Ambridge
- Chapter Thirteen God in Ambridge: The Archers as Rural Theology
- Chapter Fourteen Some Corner of a Foreign Field/That is Forever Ambridge: The Archers as a Lieu de Memoire of the First World War in Britain
- Section Five Ambridge Online
- Chapter Fifteen ‘An Everyday Story of Country Folk’ Online? The Marginalisation of the Internet and Social Media in The Archers
- Chapter Sixteen The Importance of Social Media in Modern Borsetshire Life: Domestic and Commercial
- Chapter Seventeen Being @borsetpolice: Autoethnographic Reflections on Archers Fan Fiction on Twitter
- Section Six The Helen and Rob Story
- Chapter Eighteen Understanding the Antecedents of the Domestic Violence Perpetrator Using The Archers Coercive Controlling Behaviour Storyline as a Case Study
- Chapter Nineteen Bag of the Devil: The Disablement of Rob Titchener
- Chapter Twenty Culinary Coercion: Nurturing Traditional Gender Roles in Ambridge
- Chapter Twenty-One The Case of Helen and Rob: An Evaluation of the New Coercive Control Offence and Its Portrayal in The Archers
- Chapter Twenty-Two Blood Pattern Analysis in Blossom Hill Cottage
- Chapter Twenty-Three Soundtrack to a Stabbing: What Rob’s Choice of Music over Dinner Tells us about Why he Ended up Spilling the Custard
- Chapter Twenty-Four Helen’s Diet Behind Bars: Nutrition for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women in Prison
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Index