Fandom Culture and The Archers

Cara Courage is a placemaking, and arts, activism and museums Academic and Practitioner, and Head of Tate Exchange, Tate's platform dedicated to socially engaged art.Nicola Headlam is Chief Economist and Head of Public Sector for data/tech company Red Flag Alert in Manchester, where she applies her skills and experience to solving data problems.

• Introduction: On Being and Doing Academic Archers; Nicola Headlam and Cara Courage Section One. Practice into Theory: Fandom Informing the Academy Chapter 1. Fans, Flouncers, Fundamentalists: Understanding Online Archers Fan Cultures; Claire Astbury Chapter 2. When the Script Hits the Fan: Why Archers fans stop listening (and why they can't completely keep away); Sarah Kate Merry Chapter 3. Archers Fandom and the Online Public Sphere; Elizabeth Anne Bailey Chapter 4. Cult and Culture: Transformative Fandom-de dum de dum de dum; Helen Burrows Chapter 5. Gauging Guerrilla Engagement: The Unexpected Benefits of the Academic Archers Conference; Carenza Lewis Chapter 6. When the Programme Leaves the Fans; Katharine Hoskyn Chapter 7. It’s Saturday, It must be the Archers!; Saturday Academic Archers Group aka The Saturday Group Section Two. Fandom in Action: Real Life Application of Fandom Chapter 8. A Year in Ambridge: Introducing American Students to English Village Culture through The Archers; Timothy Vercellotti Chapter 9. Teaching The Archers – Creating New Fans or Turning them off?; Caroline Birks Chapter 10. They Needed Counselling?; Karen Pollock Chapter 11. Airing Abuse in Ambridge: Is The Archers a Forum for Feminism?; Isobel DuxfieldChapter 12. Crowd-sourcing Material Culture: A History of Ambridge in 100 Objects; Felicity Macdonald-Smith Chapter 13. The View from Lakey Hill: How The Archers Empowers, Liberates and Enables Listeners who are Blind; Laura Smith