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  • Custard, Culverts and Cake

    Academics on Life in The Archers

    Edited by Cara Courage, Nicola Headlam ...
    Leading scholars combine their 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. A group of Archers Academics take on subjects such as food, geography, social media, faith. There is, naturally, an entire section dedicated to the Helen and Rob storyline.With contributions from members of the ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Flapjacks and Feudalism

    Social Mobility and Class in The Archers

    Edited by Cara Courage, Nicola Headlam ...
    Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4's The Archers.A whole section of the book is devoted to 'The Fall of the House of Aldridge', with Brian's ethical misdemeanours and fall from grace, looking at how Brian could have hidden his scandals and changed the ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Trauma Informed Placemaking

    Edited by Cara Courage, Anita McKeown ...
    Trauma Informed Placemaking offers an introduction to understanding trauma and healing in place. It offers insights that researchers and practitioners can apply to their place-based practice, learning from a global cohort of place leaders and communities.The book introduces the ethos and application of the trauma-informed approach to working in place, with references to historical and contemporary ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Fandom Culture and The Archers

    An Everyday Story of Academic Folk

    Edited by Cara Courage, Nicola Headlam ...
    The first academic study of the phenomenon of The Archers fandom from the fans themselves. The fourth instalment in the Academic Archers collection, Fandom Culture and The Archers looks beyond the popular success of the Archers to explore how the program, and the themes it discusses, are used in teaching, learning, research and professional settings, and how the Academic Archers fandom helps shape ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of ‘placemaking’ in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years. Offering valuable theoretical and practical insights from the leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the placemaking sector.Placemaking has seen a paradigmatic ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge

    Women in The Archers

    Edited by Cara Courage, Nicola Headlam ...
    The intrepid team of researchers who brought you Custard, Culverts and Cake: Academics on Life in The Archers return with a hard-hitting exposé on the lives of the women of Ambridge. In this new book, the Archers Academics are joined by former The Archers editor, Alison Hindell and real-life Academic Archer Dr Charlotte Connor (a.k.a. Susan Carter), to examine the power of gossip in Ambridge, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Arts in Place

    The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice

    by Cara Courage ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
    This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analysing how artists and communities use arts to improve their quality of life. It explores the concept of social practice placemaking, where artists and community members are seen as equal experts in the process. Drawing on examples of local level projects from the USA and Europe, the book explores the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Creative Placemaking

    Research, Theory and Practice

    Edited by Cara Courage, Anita McKeown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development. The book brings together a range of scholars to critique and deconstruct the notion of creative placemaking, presenting diverse case studies from ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Archers in Fact and Fiction

    Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire

    If you have ever wondered about the ethical implications of Dr Richard Locke’s affair with Shula Hebden Lloyd, or whether the ergonomic design of tractor seats could have prevented Tony Archer from getting a bad back, then this book is for you. Leading academics from across the United Kingdom use storylines from BBC Radio 4’s The Archers to examine life in rural Borsetshire, bringing their ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • The Working Class

    Poverty, education and alternative voices

    Edited by Ian Gilbert ...
    In The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in challenging circumstances. One of the most intractable problems in modern education is how to close the widening gap in attainment between the haves ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching

    Notes from the front line. We are, at the time I write this, in need of a revolution in education. This is a strong statement and I don't use it lightly

    by Dr Debra Kidd ...
    Our current education system is overloaded with amendments, additions and adjustments which have been designed to keep an outdated model in the air. But it is crashing. And as it comes down, we see the battle of blame begin. It is time to take our vocation back, to learn to trust ourselves and each other and, crucially, to take control of the direction of education and policy. We have allowed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dark Side of Emotional Labour

    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    The Dark Side of Emotional Labour explores the work that the rest of society would rather not think about, the often unseen work that is emotionally disturbing, exhausting, upsetting, and stigmatising. This is work that is simultaneously undesirable and rewarding, work whose tasks are eschewed and yet necessary for the effective function of individual organisations and society at large.Diverse and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD